The first time the network supervisor logs in, he or she logs in as User ADMIN, created automatically during Directory Services installation.
When ADMIN is created, it is given a default trustee assignment to the root object. This assignment grants ADMIN all rights to all objects and all volumes (directories and files) in the entire Directory tree.
This means that ADMIN has rights to create and manage all objects in the tree.
ADMIN does not have significance like SUPERVISOR did in earlier versions of NetWare. It is only the first User object created and therefore must have the ability to create other objects.
As you create other User objects on the Directory tree, you can give some of them the Supervisor object right to create and manage other container objects and their leaf objects. Control of the network is as dispersed or centralized as you make it.
After you assign the Supervisor object right to the root object for another User object, you can rename ADMIN.
Part of the flexibility of NetWare Directory Services is the capability to have centralized or dispersed control of the network. Therefore, no single User object automatically has rights over any part of the network.