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Originally Posted by djbaxter

Ok. Sorry - your questions confused me.

1. Go into your Admin CP and search for your user name.

2. Once you're on your user page, you should see at the very top:

User: {your username} (id: X)

where X = your user number. (For many people, this will be 1 but if you added yourself as another admin it will be different.)

Now you need to edit /includes/config.php for permissions of user number.

FTP method (recommended):

1. download /includes/config.php from your forum to your hard drive using Filezilla or some other FTP program, to make sure you are using the working version. Save a second copy of this as a backup.

2. using a text editor (e.g., notepad or better Crimson Editor, open config.php for editing

3. find around line 106:

PHP Code:

    //    ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG VIEWING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to view the admin log in the control panel.
    //    Users must be specified by *ID number* here. To obtain a user's ID number,
    //    view their profile via the control panel. If this is a new installation, leave
    //    the first user created will have a user ID of 1. Seperate each userid with a comma.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canviewadminlog'] = '1';

    //    ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG PRUNING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to remove ("prune") entries from the admin
    //    log. See the above entry for more information on the format.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canpruneadminlog'] = '1';

    //    ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ******
    //    The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel.
    //    See the above entries for more information on the format.
    //    Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish
    //    to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons.
$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '1';

    //    ****** UNDELETABLE / UNALTERABLE USERS ******
    //    The users specified here will not be deletable or alterable from the control panel by any users.
    //    To specify more than one user, separate userids with commas.
$config['SpecialUsers']['undeletableusers'] = '1';

    //    ****** 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'] = '1'; 


Now, for each instance of "$config['SpecialUsers']" above, make sure that your user ID # is listed. If it is something other than 1, then add it - e.g., change 1 to 1,X where X is your user number.

Next, make sure that those $config['SpecialUsers'] lines are not commented out. If any of them have two slashes in front of them, remove the two slashes.

If you have made any changes to config.php, save as PLAIN TEXT (e.g., if you arer using notepad as the editor, save as ANSI or ASCII, not unicode). Then upload the edited version to inlcude/config.php on your server.

cPanel method:

Use the file manager on your server to navigate to and edit /includes/config.php as above. Remember to save when finished.

I appreciate that info, but that is certainly way beyond my expertise.