What is a Super Administrator

[wickland]

Hello, does anyone know what a super administrator is and what the role is?

I assume the super administrator is like the administrator of administrators?

I'm building a massive forum that will consist of hundreds of categories, 1000s of forums and sub-forums (it will kick ass). I would like to become the top administrator and rule over all, but then I would like to have regular administrators who can only run control of the sub-forums and not anything else except the child forums that I choose and let these administrators have the ability to make moderators as well.

How can I set this up?

Thanks
Regards

[Michael Biddle]

Well A super administrator, is like... well a god. he can fly and see through walls.

But no, 1000 forums is alot, good luck with that.

In includes/cofig.php

find: super

and then enter your userid. Then once you add them, you can change their administrator permissions

[Zachariah]

There are many levels of Administration.

If you give a person / group of people access to AdminCP. Administrator permissions allow you to manage the amount of privileges each of your administrators has in the control panel. This has no effect on their permissions on the actual board.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/u...up_admin_perms

Understand that if you give access to any of these areas they will have full access to add/remove anything in that section.

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[Roms]

Originally Posted by whitemike

Well A super administrator, is like... well a god. he can fly and see through walls.

I must have mine setup wrong.

[Distance]

lol me too

[Michael Biddle]

lol, he set me up too good for it, I couldn't resist

[wickland]

Are you saying that if I have 3 forums: forum1, forum2, forum 3, I can't limit an administrator's power to just forum1 and administrator 2 to forum 2 and so on?

I would not like them to have access to all non-related forums though.

[Michael Biddle]

make them a moderator for just that one forum if you want it like that. but then they wont have admincp access.

[wickland]

I have tried to make myself a super administrator but it's still not letting me have the permission. This is what the line looks like in the config.php file:

$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = 'Wickland';
I have used a lower case and uppercase "w" and that still doesn't work. Is there something else I'm supposed to do?

// Users must be specified by *ID number* here.