Complete description follows. Is this sufficient? I do not have a date for when this stopped being used, or I would include that info in the "History". 

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is_superuser
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  Set to 0 for almost everybody.

  **History**: Only the earliest developers of the system have this set to 1, and it is no longer really used in the codebase. Value is 1 if the user has admin privileges.