Restrict Admin CP vB Options to only allow other Admins to ban email or IP addresses

Restrict Admin CP vBulletin Options - by Erwin
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(Only allow other Admins to ban emails or IP addresses)

As you know, the vBulletin Options section of your Admin CP is very important. From there, you can close or open your forums, change the forum name, and basically control the site. You really do not want anyone else mucking around in it, except for yourself.

On the other hand, you may want to let your other Admins have access to the Banning Section, so that they can ban email domains and IP addresses. You don't want to have to do this all by yourself.

This hack will modify the options.php file in a way that only YOU as the original admin can edit and change all the vBulletin options. However, other admins will NOT be able to see or edit any options EXCEPT that they can only ban emails or IP addresses when they go to the vBulletin Options page.

You only have to make 3 changes to the admin/options.php file.

Enjoy!

Installation text file:

[Ogibear]

Is it possible to have a hack like this for vB v3.5.4?

Rgds
OB

[pdatoon]

Weird, i applied the hack but my supermods can still see the options section.

I read that piece of code "$sqlwhere=" WHERE settinggroupid=17 ";"

I dont have any groupid=17, is that related?

[sunrunner_pei]

I'm about to install this on 2.2.9, does anyone know if or how I can allow 2 admins to have full access, yet restrict access to the 3rd admin?

Thanks!

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I doubt you wil find anyone that still supports vB2.

Is there any special reason that you do not upgrade? I would at least upgrade to the latest 2.x version, there have also been security updates. Even better would be to upgrade to 3.6.x.