Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Admin Log In As User

Admin Log In As User

About this hack:
This hack allows any admin that you set in admin permissions, to log in as any user. You have to go to the user's profile page and there will be a link to 'Log In As This User'. Also, there is a link the drop down menu in the ACP User Manager. If you are logged in as another user, you will get a message on top of the forum saying, 'You are currently logged in as another user. Click here to log back into your account.'

This hack is very easy to install. This hack has only the admin yes/no option. Just install and it's ready to be used!

Enjoy!

Installation information on hack:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 1 (Product file via ACP only)
• Time to install: 5 seconds

Updates:

Version 3.20 (11/16/09):

• Released for vb 4.0 beta 3

Version 3.21 (11/17/09):

• Removed the option to log in as yourself.

[ellinofatsa]

The following dependencies were not met:

This product is not compatible with version 4.1.5 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.0 alpha 1 / Incompatible with 4.1.0 alpha 1 and greater)

[Hostboard]

In order to get this to work in 4.1.5 you will need to download the file attached in this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=376

Open file in notepad, wordpad or your favorite text editor.

Search for: maxversion="4.1.5"
Change to: maxversion="4.1.6"

Set allow over write to YES (if upgrading)
Install & configure as normal

Tested and working 4.1.5pl3

[ellinofatsa]

thank you its ok now

[V8Owner]

I have been running this mod since it's introduction.

Today i discovered that admins can also read users PM's.

Is there anyway to make it so Admins CAN'T read PM's?

Cheers

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by V8Owner

I have been running this mod since it's introduction.

Today i discovered that admins can also read users PM's.

Is there anyway to make it so Admins CAN'T read PM's?

Cheers

It's not pretty but a quick edit will help.

Edit the plugin: Admin Log In As User on fetch_userinfo_query hook:

Change the line:

PHP Code:

if (!$processed_admin_log_in_as_user) 


to

PHP Code:

if (!$processed_admin_log_in_as_user AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'private') 


That will not allow an Admin to view a user's PMs. If they try they will be redirected to their own PMs instead.

It's ugly because the "You are logged in as someone else" banner doesn't go away but it does what is has to do.

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by V8Owner

Is there anyway to make it so Admins CAN'T read PM's?

Cheers

Yes, don't send any. Fact is that anyone who can get to the database (i.e. site sysadmins) can read anything, plus Admin's via the AdminCP.

To deal with this issue we changed Private -> Personal and put a specific disclaimer in our site rules.

The Administrator(s) reserve the right to access any or all content that you transmit using the site, or that may be stored within the site and it's databases.

and

The Personal Message (PM) system is called Personal only in that messages are not posted to the public forums.

At least we are upfront and honest about it.:up:

[hoadiem]

installed and do the fix, worked fine on 4.0.3 thanks

[Conehead555]

Helps a lot. 4.1.4

[3d3d3d]

I'm running 4.1.6 and Cannot get this to work. It worked flawlessly for me on 4.0.6, but after updating today I don't have the option in the dropdown any more. I think i've tried all the mods/edits in the thread, and have read through all 26 pages! but still no joy. I've uninstalled and re-installed but i'm hitting a dead end. Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated.

[3d3d3d]

Completely setup the forum again from scratch and this time it worked. Not sure what was stopping it from the upgrade from 4.0.6, but at least it's going now.