The Administrator creates an administrator user by allowing a user the Act as an Administrator privilege. The Act as an Administrator privilege requires the appropriate user license. The Act as an Administrator privilege overrides other privilege and object security settings, including settings where privileges and object security are denied. An administrator who has been granted the Act as Administrator privilege cannot modify his own privileges or security settings. An administrator can modify the security settings of all objects in the system, including privileges and security settings of all non-administrative users, except the Administrator user.
The Administrator is a special type of user who always has administrator privileges and who does not apply to the Act as Administrator license count. The number of users permitted to act as administrators applies to each server, regardless of the number of databases on the server. For example, a license for one act as administrator user allows granting the Act as an Administrator privilege to one user on one of the server’s databases.
How to allow the Act as an Administrator privilege
1 In the Navigation Pane, choose Setup➛Users.
2 In Setup Users, choose a user name.
3 In Setup User—Security, in Type of object, select Database.
4 In Actions, in Act as an Administrator, select Allow, as shown in Figure 2‑16.
Figure 2‑16 Allowing administrative privileges to a user
