Member's area in the admin cp.
 

This simple addition adds links to many areas of the vBulletin.com member's area right in your admin control panel. With this installed you can;

- Download vBulletin and Impex
- Browse the vBulletin user Manual
- Browse the vBulletin API documentation
- Send support tickets
- Browse the vBulletin.com message board
- View the Change logs

All from the admin control panel.

The new links will appear below the vBoptions table. An admin account will require access to the vBoptions before the new menu will appear. Although there is no issue with other admins begin able to view the pages (they can't unless they have the username/password for the member's area) there is really no reason for them to see such links. Instead of adding new admin permissions (I'm lazy) I just used the one already in place for vBoptions, as the 'main' admin (read: license owner) will likely have permission to use that anyway. ;)

To install upload the attached file to the following directory on your web-server; /home/webroot/vbulletin/includes/xml

Attached file?

You're quick, and it's there now. ;)

Oh man!!

I swear I wanted to make that hack..
I was 70% finished :(

Very useful .. thanks Brad
Clicked install

Thanks man!

thanks !
please help for permission config.php ?
666 ? 777 ? 555 ?

I'm getting an "invalid file" error upon upload.

Brilliant idea Install thanks alot .

Oh very nice to have contained via the AdminCP. :

41 downloads and only 15 installs lol...

Cheers m8 will install this now :)

sweet!

Instead of new admin permissions, why not limit this to the super admin only?

Another suggestion is to include a link to the security patches download area. Not something jelsoft fully promotes, but it is there and might be handy ;) http://members.vbulletin.com/patches.php

I love these little snippets that make life easier. Thanks!

So let me get this straight, If i install this and someone manages to steal my password somehow or hacks the server that my site is on and changes my password then goes and logs into the admin section as me, Then they have free rain in the vbulletin members area to download anything on offer and bog off and pirate it to their hearts content :)

Hmm that's the way it reads to me, think i will give it a miss can't see why i would need to download from the vb members area from inside my board anyway.

But well done i presume some people will think this is a great addition.

No.

The only way anyone can get into the member's area is finding out your customer number and password. This modification never asks for such things, it just loads the member's area inside the admincp iframe.

It's no less secure then going directly to the member's area with your webbrowser.

Now you just said that it automaticly fills in the customer number and password, and then you said that they won't get access to the members area if they gain access to the adminCP.. did you not? Yes.

And if I'm the licence owner, and not userID #1 (as I presume you mean by that).. then what?

Listen to floris and make it a superadmin permission.

thanks

The permissions do nothing but hide the link. I rarely if ever log-in as super admin so this would be useless to me if I had done it that way. If you want it super admin only you'll have to do that part for yourself.

You seem confused here so allow me to explain;

All this does is link you to the member's area. This hack does not remember your username and password for the member's area, it does not automatically log you into the member's area, it does not allow anyone into the member's area that does not know your username and password for it.

In short it's just like typing in the address to the member's area in your web browser and visiting it that way. If you're smart and do not share your log-in details with anyone else you will be fine even if they know the link to the member's area.

Please, don't spread FUD in this thread. I know people may be iffy about linking such a thing from the admin cp and will probably have questions/concerns about it (which I am happy to answer and address).

Thanks!

If you are worried of someone hacking your forums and getting into the back-end then make your password tougher and only the ability to copy and paste the password to the forums to login only...

Just my thoughts ;)

Passes such as 15 chars strong and having yourself a text file named something other than mypasswords.txt on your computer, laptop and etc, hell name it this-is-for-the-party.txt.. Where all you have to do is copy/paste the passwords. I found this way to be the safest and more reliable way where even having a keylogger on your windowzzzzz machine this will help thwart the idea of you having to type this in.

Passwords as such are pretty nice, especially in critical areas:

pws8fInnTX4GLmo
jx7b5rAR1zpAe85
eauxE7I2lA8sBx7
RJPfm3sGkcjsQMG
QMwF4Ouh4vRbPCJ


Hope this helps anyone out with why they keep getting hacked or worried of being hacked, as it's plain and simple that script kiddies love those dictionary based keywords!! ;)

BTW *Installed*!!!

This is an extra, extra convenient mod. Installed and nominated for MOTM.

Yep, Installed. Thanks!