Forum owner account now protected against rogue admins

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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 8:06 am Post subject: Forum owner account now protected against rogue admins

It should now be impossible to delete/deactivate or ban, the original "admin" account a forum was set up with. This provides a fig leaf of protection against rogue admin activity. But no one should be under the slightest illusion that this alters how important it is to keep admin priviliges down to only yourself or a very very few people you can trust absolutely. Someone with admin powers can still trash everything on your forum! _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject:

Hmm... Good idea, i was wondering if it was possible to delete the orignal admin before. _________________

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:51 am Post subject:

yes, this is a very good idea, a site that i was admin on got comletely destroyed and all of the accounts, including the head admin, and the entire site was completely messed up

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:40 am Post subject:

Is the original admin able to remove his own rights? This is sometimes useful, as I have set up a forum for someone else in another clan before, then removed from admin (as was my wish). So it isn't always a bad thing.

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:10 am Post subject:

We have lifted some of this as a bug was stopping ordinary deletions But anyway in exceptional circumstances we can always deal with things. It is simply that normally admin deletion is a rogue action. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject:

Bravo wrote:

Is the original admin able to remove his own rights?

This is sometimes useful, as I have set up a forum for someone else in another clan before, then removed from admin (as was my wish). So it isn't always a bad thing.

well, you could also just go into the admin panel, and change that person's name to whatever you want and then change the password

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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject:

golfman wrote:

Bravo wrote:

well, you could also just go into the admin panel, and change that person's name to whatever you want and then change the password

They would still be owner.
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject:

but what i'm saying is instead of deleting that, you could just make that account yours, then you are the site admin