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Grant moderators access to certain member functions on a version 6.04 board?

Basically, I would like to give mods the abilties to silence users (toggle "able to post notes"), ban ips, and remove anything offensive from member profiles. I would give mods access to the whole page, but I don't want them to be able to delete users or grant/revoke admin privilidges.

I'd make the people admins, but frankly I don't trust them with that much power. One would likely try to do something to one of the other admins or mess with the configuration settings.

Any help would be appreciated.

That is fairly simple and easy to do (couple of minutes will do).

First to let your moderators view/update the ban lists:

Open "cp.cgi" (in /cgi-bin)

Find:
###################
if (($ubb eq 'ban_lists') && ($status eq 'Administrator')) {
###################

Replace with:
###################
if ($ubb eq 'ban_lists'){
###################

Find:
###################
if (($ubb eq 'update_bans') && ($status eq 'Administrator')) {
###################

Replace with:
###################
if ($ubb eq 'update_bans') {
###################

Save and close "cp.cgi" (remember to keep backups!).

Open "cp_common.pl" (in /noncgi/Templates).

Find:
###################
if (userStatus == "Administrator") {
document.writeln(" - IP & Email Ban Lists");
document.writeln(" - Import UBB$trade 5.x Archives");
document.writeln(" - Custom Graemlin$trade Settings");
}
###################

Replace with:
###################
if (userStatus == "Administrator") {
document.writeln(" - IP & Email Ban Lists");
document.writeln(" - Import UBB$trade 5.x Archives");
document.writeln(" - Custom Graemlin$trade Settings");
}
if (userStatus == "Moderator") {
document.writeln(" - IP & Email Ban Lists");
}
###################

Save and close "cp_common.pl".
Now your moderators will be able to view and modify the ban lists.

As for letting moderators view and modify member accounts, but not delete or make people admins...
that will take some "major" editing, more than I can write down at the moment. :rolleyes:

oh.

Not at all!

If you look at the changes in the cp_common.pl,
you'll see that the user must be a moderator OR an administrator to view/edit the ban lists.

It's the exact same format as is used for all the other control panel features.

The user access to the Control Panel pages is controlled in cp_common.pl, too.

Edit: Have a look at these two lines:

if (userStatus == "Administrator") {
if (userStatus == "Moderator") {

If the user is an Administrator or Moderator, he can go on, else not.

Of course you can do it like this instead:

if (($ubb eq 'update_bans') && ($status eq 'Administrator' || 'Moderator')) {

But I'll stick to the same format as used for some other functions in the control panel.