Rougue adminstrator
 

Need advice on a rougue administrator. The current admin gave himself total control, need to know how to het control back

Any advice appreciated.

Thank you all.... !!!!!

hum, what would be your goal, overtake the forum?

the admin IS the controler of the site, what do you want ??

btw, this forum is about anything BUT vBulletin...

Moved to correct forum.

See the bright side... you gave us a good laugh! :D

p.s. There's not such thing if you name is on the credit cards, the hosting, the domains, the license, etc...

hum, btw, you talk about The Admin... so you are not?!... are you licensed here, do you have access to this forum?

Did he dissolve the Senate and place control in the hands of Regional Moffs?:eek:

Now joke aside

Are you a Co-Admin, the real admin whom has been stripped of power? etc etc

Oh my gosh.... yes the Co-admin / site owner, have issue with an admin who read how to take control.... I guess.... now that person is out of control... And yes, not a good idea, I KNOW..... but I need help

Thank you

*You* are the site owner? Did you give him ftp access? Server access?

Yes, but since then, things have gotten a little south,.... as mentioned out of control.

Need to get control back. He has given himself super admin rights???? unable to delete or remove, or change them.

Change the ftp, the cpanel and edit the config file.

Yeah, take away his access to the server. If you need help with that, talk to your host.

That part is easy, however, when trying to adjust his permissions I recieve THIS:


Sorry, this user is protected from being altered in the config.php file by the $config['SpecialUsers']['undeletableusers'] variable.

?????

Looks like this is a mod of some sort that he has installed


:confused:

No, he did not install a mod for that. That is a line in your config.php file that you may modify. However, I would not suggest modifying it while he still has access to get in and change it because he will just change it again.

What shall or could I do????

For sure delete his FTP access, but????? now what?

--------------- Added [DATE]1235598011[/DATE] at [TIME]1235598011[/TIME] ---------------

My response for sure are without his knowledge..... as I am concerned that my forum maybe destroyed

thank you

As Lynne says......once you are sure he no longer has FTP access, you need to FTP to your config.php file. Look for the line special users/undeletable users......it will have his user id number there.......change it to your user id number.

Take their user ID from the list of admins in config.php then they will only have limited activity in the ACP.