Super Administrators limited to 1 usergroup
 

Alright,

It is a bit hard to explain this problem exactly, but I will try to the best of my ability.

Whenever a User's ID is added to the Super Administrator's section of the config.php file, that user HAS to be in the original Administrator's usergroup, or he/she will gain no special permissions.

What I'd like to do is find a hack or a mod that will allow any user to be a super administrator, regardless of their usergroup, so long as their ID is in the config.php file.

If you can help me out I'd appreciate it. I'm sure others have asked about this before, but I find nothing through my many searches.

This should be the last of my problems, thanks.

Are you sure about this, I've not looked at the code, but I would have thought all that was needed is the usergroup have ACP access granted. I'd be surprised if its tied to UG 6.

I'm fairly sure I've been on a forum where the founder wasn't in UG 6 but still has super admin powers.

Users need to be able to access the ACP for the "special permissions".

Looks like you're right, I probably messed something up earlier.

Any way someone can remain a Super Administrator even if their usergroup didn't allow them to be one? Perhaps a mod or hack?

There are times when I'd like to grant ACP access to a member I know without anyone finding out and threatening to leave because they've been around longer than him or something.

If I created a usergroup identical to "Registered Users", the member would be appearing in the "Forum Leaders" page, and it's things like this that I want to prevent from happening.

Keep me posted, thanks for the help so far.

You can set per usergroup if the members should show on the Leaders page or not.

I would not suggest to make any changes to how it currently works. The current system needs both a file edit (config.php) and a usergroup change (vB/MySQL) making it more difficult for a hacker to gain full admin access if he only manages to hack into either the filesystem or MySQL.