Is it okay to change password for "User 1"

[#1]

Hello,

I need to import a view in the Dev Portal. The permissions required to do this operation are only granted to user 1. We don't know the password for user 1, so that would require resetting the password or deleting the account and setting the UID of another account to 1.

If I do either of those actions, will it break any calls to Management UI or create other nasty problems?

Thank you for your time,

Mitchel

[chrisnovak]

Yes, you can change the password for "user 1", but it is actually recommended to not have user 1 available for logging in.

Instead of using views import, the best practice is to embed the view into a custom module or use the Features module.

This way you can put changes in version control and easily push the change to each environment.