SoCalHockeyDad
06-22-2002, 01:09 AM
Hi
I admin run an EzBoard at http://www.socal-hockey.com
I am sick and tired of the security restrictions put on the admin - I have no rights at all to view any information about my members.
I am hoping that a switch to another BB software will allow me more control over the security. I read the entire manual and still have these questions:
1. Can I see every member's email address? For that matter, can I see the entire contents of the registration screen? Can I see their password too?
2. Can I reset their password if they forget it? Or, as a "punishment", can I change their password and make them contact me to get it back?
3. Can I force a private message on someone, as the admin? I suppose I could just email them - but the problem with my current board is that users get a bogus hotmail addy, then just use it to complete the registration, then dump it. I need a way to contact them to let them know that their behaviour must stop or they are history.
4. I noticed that I can make a few custom fields in the registration screen. Can I make those fields required? I am thinking of requiring some other piece of information such as phone number or team name (this is a hockey league).
5. Can the custom information be made only visible to the admin and not mods or other users?
Non - security related questions:
6. Since I have some user's and mods with many, many posts, can I preserve the number of posts by manually setting the number even though I they haven't posted that qty?
7. This one is probably a for sure NO! but why not ask!
Can I import my EzBoard??
Thanks everyone for helping out. I am pretty sure that vBulletin is the best product out their, but I need these features to take the next step. My EzBoard has 2,000,000 hits!!!
-Dave
I admin run an EzBoard at http://www.socal-hockey.com
I am sick and tired of the security restrictions put on the admin - I have no rights at all to view any information about my members.
I am hoping that a switch to another BB software will allow me more control over the security. I read the entire manual and still have these questions:
1. Can I see every member's email address? For that matter, can I see the entire contents of the registration screen? Can I see their password too?
2. Can I reset their password if they forget it? Or, as a "punishment", can I change their password and make them contact me to get it back?
3. Can I force a private message on someone, as the admin? I suppose I could just email them - but the problem with my current board is that users get a bogus hotmail addy, then just use it to complete the registration, then dump it. I need a way to contact them to let them know that their behaviour must stop or they are history.
4. I noticed that I can make a few custom fields in the registration screen. Can I make those fields required? I am thinking of requiring some other piece of information such as phone number or team name (this is a hockey league).
5. Can the custom information be made only visible to the admin and not mods or other users?
Non - security related questions:
6. Since I have some user's and mods with many, many posts, can I preserve the number of posts by manually setting the number even though I they haven't posted that qty?
7. This one is probably a for sure NO! but why not ask!
Can I import my EzBoard??
Thanks everyone for helping out. I am pretty sure that vBulletin is the best product out their, but I need these features to take the next step. My EzBoard has 2,000,000 hits!!!
-Dave