We retested this behaviour with a fresh installation of 2.9b.
After LDAP and NTLM were active, all of the admins that were configured in /tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/custom-authority-services-context.xml were granted admin rights.
But as soon, as the old repository was imported, only the user admin was still able to administer Alfresco.
If he was uncommented
<property name="adminUsers">
<set>
<!– <value>admin</value> –>
<value>someotheruser</value>
</set>
</property>
its rights vanished; if reactivated, he got its admin function back. But for the other users (which were successfully imported and could work flawlessly), this didn't have any effect. They stayed with the rights of a normal user.
The same users worked as admins before the import.
Is there something we could try regarding this behaviour? Maybe there is a chance to edit the user-rights via a full export in the xml-files of the acp that is holding all information about the users' rights?