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title: "Platform admin role"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Discover the extensive capabilities of the platform admin role in Site Factory. Learn how to manage websites, user accounts, and crucial administrative tasks for optimal deployment control."
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The _platform admin_ role on Site Factory should be assigned to privileged users who have overall responsibility for the Site Factory deployment. When Site Factory is first provisioned for a client, a single account is assigned the _platform admin_ role. The owner of the first _platform admin_ account can create other _platform admin_ accounts as necessary.

Users with the _platform admin_ role can manage all websites and OpenID single sign-on user accounts. The ability to manage all websites and OpenID accounts differentiates the _platform admin_ role from the [site builder](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/site-builder) role.

Users that are assigned the _platform admin_ role can perform the following actions with Site Factory:

*   Sign in to Site Factory
    
*   [View websites](/site-factory/manage/website/manage)
    
*   [Specify login authentication mode](/site-factory/manage/login-mode)
    

Note

The _platform admin_ has only administrative privileges for those websites to which they have been assigned administrative roles.

Perform website management actions on all of the websites on Site Factory, including:

*   [Managing domains](/site-factory/manage/domains)
    
*   [Duplicating the site](/site-factory/manage/website/duplicate)
    
*   [Exporting the site](/site-factory/manage/website/backup)
    
*   [Enable installation profiles](/site-factory/manage/preferences/profiles)
    
*   [Configuring the site’s Terms of Service](/site-factory/manage/preferences/tos)
    
*   [Create and download site backups](/site-factory/manage/website/backup)
    
*   [Deleting the site](/site-factory/manage/website/delete)
    
*   [Transferring ownership of the site to others](/site-factory/manage/preferences/site-owner#acsf-transfer-site-owner)
    
*   [Specify the global Terms of Services for all sites](/site-factory/manage/preferences/tos)
    
*   [Create user accounts](/site-factory/manage/users)
    
*   [Delete, block, and unlock users](/site-factory/manage/users)
    
*   [Assign roles to users](/site-factory/manage/users)