Change Admin Password

[kriscarter]

Hi everyone!

I'm just getting my feet wet with this vBulletin stuff. I had someone set up my vBulletin for me. It's been over a month now, and I would like to change my password to something not so "common". I'm unsure on how to do this. I know that I can go to my users and change the admin password there, but will that also change it when I go to log into the actual control panel? I just don't want to be changing passwords and not be able to get back into the control panel.

I would assume it couldn't be that easy, just because if someone does get into your forum control panel they could basically lock you out by changing that one field. I don't know. But my goal is to change the password that allows me to log into the admin control panel.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Have a GREAT night!

Kris :-)

[Jim O]

Your password for the forums is the same as your password for admin control panel. You can set up a user with a lesser level of privileges for the forum and an "admin" that you only use to administer the forums if you want.

Be advised that when your forum was set up your user ID may have been set as "undeletable/unalterable" user in the includes/config.php script. In that case you would need to edit that script before you change your password.

You can change your password at "http://yourdomain.com/forums/profile.php?do=editpassword" (substitute your domain for "yourdomain.com") or through the User Manager in the admin panel.