Carter,

First of all, welcome to the DNN Community. As with any mature platform, there can be a steep learning curve. For the use case you mention, you can actually convert any user to a "Superuser". "host" is the only "Superuser" account included by default. What version of DNN are you using? Once we know that, we can provide more specific details on how to elevate a user to a "Superuser" account.

Regards,

David

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Well, that was a nice first post... Welcome to the Dnn Community.

Like David said, you can make any user a SuperUser, it is a security decision to only allow SuperUsers to install extensions. Which makes sense, allowing any role to do anything would mean there would be no difference from an admin to a SuperUser.

As a general rule, administrators can do pretty much everything that relates to a single site (unless there are site groups setup) and SuperUsers can do anything including what affects all sites of an instance. Since extensions affect all sites, this is a SuperUser feature.