Reph, as far as ezboard is concerned the ezop IS the owner of the board. The ezop is the person who creates the board, and agrees to the terms of use. That is the person responsible for the board. Any other administrator is just an administrator. Only one perosn is identified in the memberlist as the ezop.

If you have an admin who needs to promote admins, then the owner (ezop) can simply give him that power on his edit page.
The admins at our board really don't understand this arrangement. For one thing, the move from ezboard took us all by surprise. Later it turned out that board owners were notified of such moves in advance and ezOps were not. Our owner has been absent for a few years, but we've always had an active ezOp, so we concluded that being out of touch with the owner was the reason we hadn't been informed. For instance, the owner may have changed his address. Did we go wrong in thinking it was the reason? If the ezOp is the person responsible for the board, shouldn't yuku have notified him, rather than the owner, of the impending move?

(In our case, neither the ezOp nor the board owner created the board originally, but who created it isn't relevant to our questions about what the titles mean. The important thing is, the Admin section identifies one person as owner and another as ezOp, and we need to know who can do what.)

Then the current ezOp tried to remove some retired admins and promote another member to admin. He couldn't do it. At that point, an admin asked you for help, and you gave her the extra powers so we could get our new admin in place. (Note to other users: if you need to change admins and you can't, ask a yuku admin for a sprinkling of power dust.)

We're currently trying to get ownership transferred from the owner to the ezOp. What you wrote implies that this is unnecessary and might even limit the person's powers. Please advise.