Answer: USERADMIN

The question asks which administrative role the initial ACCOUNTADMIN user should grant to at least one additional user in a new Snowflake account. According to Snowflake documentation and the community discussion (with the top comment having 12 upvotes and referencing official documentation), the USERADMIN role is specifically designed for user management tasks. The ACCOUNTADMIN should create additional users with USERADMIN role to delegate user creation and management responsibilities, following security best practices. This separates duties and reduces reliance on the powerful ACCOUNTADMIN role. Other options are less suitable: PUBLIC is a default role with minimal privileges, ORGADMIN is for organization-level administration, and SYSADMIN is for system object management, not specifically for user administration.

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