Locked Out of vBulletin

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    Locked Out of vBulletin​


    I accidentally deleted my admin account for my vBulletin forum when editing some things. I need to find away to create a new one or change the privileges of another one using the database files rather than the admin cp that I dont have access too. Thanks :)
     
    KMRock, Nov 14, 2010 IP
  2. mcfox

    mcfox Wind Maker

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    It's been quite a while since I've dealt with vBulletin but can't you just create an admin account directly from the database backend?
     
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  3. johnnyboy1988

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    Create a new account, then open up PHPMyAdmin and move your new username to administrators usergroup and voila everything is fine, you could do something using ur config.php file.
     
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  4. KMRock

    KMRock Peon

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    Okay, so it is done via phpmyadmin? And I just edit the specific user in the PHPMyAdmin? I'm pretty new at this kind of thing, any help?
     
    KMRock, Nov 14, 2010 IP
  5. johnnyboy1988

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    Simply create a new account, for example test and then go to PHPMyAdmin to find that user (under user tree), when you find your test user then edit its profile i mean put him in administrators group like in image under:

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  7. scylla

    scylla Notable Member

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    This is such an easy fix and you don't have to touch phpmyadmin

    Just open config.php & edit the following

    //	****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG VIEWING PERMISSIONS ******
	//	The users specified here will be allowed to view the admin log in the control panel.
	//	Users must be specified by *ID number* here. To obtain a user's ID number,
	//	view their profile via the control panel. If this is a new installation, leave
	//	the first user created will have a user ID of 1. Seperate each userid with a comma.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canviewadminlog'] = '1';

	//	****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG PRUNING PERMISSIONS ******
	//	The users specified here will be allowed to remove ("prune") entries from the admin
	//	log. See the above entry for more information on the format.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canpruneadminlog'] = '1';

	//	****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
	//	The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
	//	See the above entries for more information on the format.
	//	Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
	//	to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '';

	//	****** UNDELETABLE / UNALTERABLE USERS ******
	//	The users specified here will not be deletable or alterable from the control panel by any users.
	//	To specify more than one user, separate userids with commas.
$config['SpecialUsers']['undeletableusers'] = '1';

	//	****** SUPER ADMINISTRATORS ******
	//	The users specified below will have permission to access the administrator permissions
	//	page, which controls the permissions of other administrators
$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1';
    PHP:
     
    scylla, Dec 12, 2010 IP