What is a Super Administrator

[wickland]

Hello, does anyone know what a super administrator is and what the role is?

I assume the super administrator is like the administrator of administrators?

I'm building a massive forum that will consist of hundreds of categories, 1000s of forums and sub-forums (it will kick ass). I would like to become the top administrator and rule over all, but then I would like to have regular administrators who can only run control of the sub-forums and not anything else except the child forums that I choose and let these administrators have the ability to make moderators as well.

How can I set this up?

Thanks
Regards

[Michael Biddle]

Well A super administrator, is like... well a god. he can fly and see through walls.

But no, 1000 forums is alot, good luck with that.

In includes/cofig.php

find: super

and then enter your userid. Then once you add them, you can change their administrator permissions

[Zachariah]

There are many levels of Administration.

If you give a person / group of people access to AdminCP. Administrator permissions allow you to manage the amount of privileges each of your administrators has in the control panel. This has no effect on their permissions on the actual board.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/usergroup_admin_perms

Understand that if you give access to any of these areas they will have full access to add/remove anything in that section.

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[Roms]

Well A super administrator, is like... well a god. he can fly and see through walls.

I must have mine setup wrong. :p

[Distance]

lol me too :p

[Michael Biddle]

lol, he set me up too good for it, I couldn't resist

[wickland]

Are you saying that if I have 3 forums: forum1, forum2, forum 3, I can't limit an administrator's power to just forum1 and administrator 2 to forum 2 and so on?

I would not like them to have access to all non-related forums though.

[Michael Biddle]

make them a moderator for just that one forum if you want it like that. but then they wont have admincp access.

[wickland]

I have tried to make myself a super administrator but it's still not letting me have the permission. This is what the line looks like in the config.php file:

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = 'Wickland';
I have used a lower case and uppercase "w" and that still doesn't work. Is there something else I'm supposed to do?

[nexialys]

// Users must be specified by *ID number* here.

[AuroraStorm]

Isn't the Super Admin the board owner? I have 4 admins but only one has just a few less powers than me...you can't give that kind of control to others...that never works out...maybe you would be better with super moderators...

1,000 forums, huh? What kind of forum will it be?

[wickland]

:confused: I still don't get it, this is all I see:

// ****** 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'] = 'Wickland';

I specified myself as the user name, please let me know what I'm missing here.

Thanks

[Michael Biddle]

with 1000's of forums it better have information on how to solve cancer, and where we came from.

you need your userid in their not your name

[wickland]

Where do I find my userID then? Is that just "1"? I just now put "1" in there and that didn't work.

WAIT, I got it now, sorry about that, I put in "Q" instead of "1", hows that for a spelling error...:o

Thanks for the help whitemike. AuroraStorm mentioned something about a super moderator, what is that all about? Can moderators make threads and sub-forums but also be limited to one level of a forum of my choice? What role and difference does a super moderator do over a regular moderator?

This isn't what my forum is about, but the reason this is so important is lets assume I have forum called Sports and 2 subforums called football and chess with detailed subforums under that. I would be in permission of "Sports" and everything, but I would want someone who is a master of football to be an admin or moderator, and the master of chess be the king of the chess forum kingdom. I would want to prevent the football administrator from getting any access to the chess for whatever reason, maybe he has a traumatic grudge on chess in general and would delete the whole chess forum and then lose touch with reality and delete everything...

I'm guessing the super moderator can hold these jobs and be limited, am I right?:)

Thanks
Regards

[Michael Biddle]

No, a moderator mods selected forums, a super moderator mods all forums (normally) and admins do everything else. you cannot limit admins to just making supforums. either all forums, or none.

[Dismounted]

Super Administrator - All Powers
Administrator - Less Powers Than Super Admin (Probably removing ability to manage plugins)
Super Moderator - Moderates All Forums (Open, Close, Delete Any Thread)
Moderator - Moderates Assigned Forums (Open, Close, Delete Any Thread In Their Forums Only)