Unalterable Admins Can Edit Themselves

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

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|| Unalterable Admins Can Edit Themselves
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Co-Author(s) : Andreas
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jan 31, 2009
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|| Time required to install: 30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

Allows unalterable administrators to modify their own accounts (with the exception of the password, usergroup and membergroups) via admincp.

STATISTICS

Products to Install: 1


VERSION HISTORY

1.0.5
[+] Ported to vBulletin 3.7.x - 3.8.x.

1.0.4
[+] The modification is now compatible with vBulletin 3.6.4 - a plugin code change was required due to changed format of CVS_REVISION constant.
[+] It is no more possible for an uneditable admin to modify the usergroup(s) he or she belongs to.

1.0.3
[+] The modification is now officially compatible with vBulletin 3.6.0 and above.
[+] The modification is now a product rather than a plugin, and it supports version check.

1.0.2
[+] Added restriction to prevent code from executing anywhere but within user.php.
[+] Added restriction to prevent alteration of password for unalterable administrators.

1.0.1
This is now a plugin instead of a code hack. Cheers to Andreas.

1.0.0
First Public Release

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[Calisse]

works perfectly and nice and easy for dopes like me. lol. cheers, was looking for a way to do this (damn kids on the admin cpanel want to change their rep making me work grumble grumble mutter)

[Telegon80]

edit: nm works good

[Talisman]

I'm getting a strange error, but have no idea why. I installed the plug-in and that went through just fine. But when I try to access my ACP, I get a parse error from global.php.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /......../forum/admincp/global.php(194) : eval()'d code on line 1

Locking myself out of my own ACP isn't quite the result I was going for, especially since that's where I'd have to go now to un-install this plugin ... lol. So I commented out the hook instruction in admin/global.php Line 194. And that let me access the ACP again.

So here's the code from that line. Does anyone see why I'd get a parse error from this? And is this the correct syntax to be installed by the xml file?

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('admin_global')) ? eval($hook) : false;

[IrPr]

seems not workin on 3.5.2

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by Moosa

seems not workin on 3.5.2

Really? I'll check.

[da prez]

Psionic this hack interferes with the ability to add users through admincp, do you have any idea why ?

when adding a user, i get invalid password specified error.

i am guessing it is the password thing for admins.

it is not huge deal as i can turn it off, but if it could be fixed that would be kickass.

[akanevsky]

Psionic this hack interferes with the ability to add users through admincp

Are you sure that it is my hack?

[norwichcanary]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Are you sure that it is my hack?

I can confirm I had the same issue and uninstalled the mod. It would not let me edit any user passwords.

[akanevsky]

Ah. It was supposed to restrict password alteration for unalterable administrators, but apparently it does so for everyone. FIXED!

[Telegon80]

ah so this is the reason why i couldnt add new users lmfao... damn, so this is fixed? ill go ahead and re-install...