Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Member's area in the admin cp.

This simple addition adds links to many areas of the vBulletin.com member's area right in your admin control panel. With this installed you can;

- Download vBulletin and Impex
- Browse the vBulletin user Manual
- Browse the vBulletin API documentation
- Send support tickets
- Browse the vBulletin.com message board
- View the Change logs

All from the admin control panel.

The new links will appear below the vBoptions table. An admin account will require access to the vBoptions before the new menu will appear. Although there is no issue with other admins begin able to view the pages (they can't unless they have the username/password for the member's area) there is really no reason for them to see such links. Instead of adding new admin permissions (I'm lazy) I just used the one already in place for vBoptions, as the 'main' admin (read: license owner) will likely have permission to use that anyway.

To install upload the attached file to the following directory on your web-server; /home/webroot/vbulletin/includes/xml

[blogtorank]

If you are worried of someone hacking your forums and getting into the back-end then make your password tougher and only the ability to copy and paste the password to the forums to login only...

Just my thoughts

Passes such as 15 chars strong and having yourself a text file named something other than mypasswords.txt on your computer, laptop and etc, hell name it this-is-for-the-party.txt.. Where all you have to do is copy/paste the passwords. I found this way to be the safest and more reliable way where even having a keylogger on your windowzzzzz machine this will help thwart the idea of you having to type this in.

Passwords as such are pretty nice, especially in critical areas:

pws8fInnTX4GLmo
jx7b5rAR1zpAe85
eauxE7I2lA8sBx7
RJPfm3sGkcjsQMG
QMwF4Ouh4vRbPCJ


Hope this helps anyone out with why they keep getting hacked or worried of being hacked, as it's plain and simple that script kiddies love those dictionary based keywords!!

[blogtorank]

BTW *Installed*!!!

[talenak]

This is an extra, extra convenient mod. Installed and nominated for MOTM.

[txspaderz]

Yep, Installed. Thanks!