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Mod access to forum settings
#275448 06/22/2004 11:44 PM
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Our mods have access to more admin settings than we're comfortable with - eg, one of them today took it upon himself to 'tinker' with one of the forum descriptions. We can't find the setting to control this access. If there isn't such a setting could you suggest a way round it? We're using UBB.threads v6.4.2. Thanks.
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Re: Mod access to forum settings
cucciolo #275449 06/23/2004 4:50 AM
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The easiest way would be to deny them the ability to edit a forum altogether. This way, they'd only be moderating users and managing threads - that's it.

Here's what you do.

In ubbthreads/admin/menu.php...

DELETE (or //comment) THE FOLLOWING:

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      $html -> open_admin_table(); <br />echo <<<EOF <br />           <tr><td valign=top class=tdheader> <br />           <b>{$ubbt_lang['FORUMMAN']}</b> <br />           </td></tr> <br />          <tr><td valign=top class=lighttable> <br />           <a href="{$config['phpurl']}/admin/editboard.php?Cat=$Cat" target="mainFrame"> <br />           {$ubbt_lang['MODEDIT']} <br />           </a></span> <br />EOF; <br />      $html -> close_table(); <br />      echo "<p>";


At least that's how it's done for v6.3.2, so 6.4 should be quite similar if not exactly the same

Re: Mod access to forum settings
smoknz28 #275450 06/23/2004 3:46 PM
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And done. Thanks!
Re: Mod access to forum settings
cucciolo #275451 06/26/2004 4:40 PM
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Can I also apply this to the Admins? I have 7 Admins, but ONLY want myself and 1 other Admin to have access to the Full Control Panel....How can I do this?

Re: Mod access to forum settings
HostNuke #275452 06/26/2004 6:24 PM
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Ok that's gonna be a li'l trickier. I think the way to go about it would be to:

a) modify the current 'elseif' admin argument, specifiying that if their U_Status is admin AND if their U_Username is 'admin1' OR 'admin2' who gets full access, then they will receive the list of full options (already given).

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elseif (($user['U_Status'] == 'Administrator') && (($user['U_Username'] == 'admin1') || ($user['U_Username'] == 'admin2')))


b) create a new 'elseif' admin argument specifying that if their U_Status is an admin, but their U_Username IS NOT 'admin1' OR 'admin2' who gets full access, then they will receive a list of limited options (which you'll need to specify, just cut & paste the full list from above and remove whatever you don't want them to have).

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elseif (($user['U_Status'] == 'Administrator') && (($user['U_Username'] != 'admin1') || ($user['U_Username'] != 'admin2')))


Obviously...

admin1 = your username
admin2 = the other admin's username

Do you know how to go about implementing these changes now, or?
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Re: Mod access to forum settings
smoknz28 #275453 07/17/2004 4:50 PM
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Wow! this is a great idea! Giving limited Admin access to a select group...This should be a Hack-Mod. Only one problem the syntax is wrong...
'admin1' should be "admin1" quotes instead of commas

Thanks to Twisty

Last edited by Menemeth; 07/17/2004 5:37 PM.
Re: Mod access to forum settings
deathshadow #275454 07/17/2004 8:57 PM
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[]Menemeth said:
Only one problem the syntax is wrong...
'admin1' should be "admin1" quotes instead of commas
[/]

The apostrophes are fine, no quotation marks necessary


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