Username change for an Adminstrator

[bremereric]

I would like to change my username and I am the owner and administrator of my board. I made a secondary administrator before trying. I changed it and tried to save it but the it flashed a warning that I was protected by some varibles the config.php. Any help would be apreiciated. I already know I will have to update the counters after this is accomplished.

[John Lester]

Your admin id is listed in the config.php file as undeletable. This also means it's un-editable. You will have to edit your config.php file and either remove the admin id you're renaming, or replace it with the secondary admin id.

You find your userid by searching for your username in the acp. It's at the very top.

You could also add your admin id back to config.php after you rename yourself (recommended).

[bremereric]

In laymans terms please. I have changed my password before.

[Krusty1231]

Download your config.php file from your server. It is in the forum/includes folder.

You will need to open it up - in this instance you could use say - notepad to open it.

Scroll down till you see this:

// ****** UNDELETABLE / UNALTERABLE USERS ******

Take out the 1 - input the other admin you created with that user ID.

Save it - reupload the config.php

Make your name change.

[John Lester]

Originally Posted by bremereric

In laymans terms please. I have changed my password before.

The members listed as undeletable in the config.php can't be edited by other admins. Yes you can change your own password if you're logged in with that account, but you can not change it if you're logged in from another admin account.

It's done that way to help protect the account(s) from tampering.