moderators can change passwds of their private forums (ubb 5.47d)

download, modify variables, change name to .pl/.cgi, upload and chmod 755.
http://banco.jogosonline.com.br/ubbmods/modprivpass.txt

This script will give the Moderators ability to change their private forums passwords anytime. There are options included to 'allow only' or 'not allow' moderators.

This is being released as beta, and therefore should be treated like that... For 'testers', backup the 'forums.cgi' file and keep an eye for modifications made to it... i cant be hold responsible for weird changes on that.

I think thats it folks

. Glad to join the party. If i have the guts, i'll upgrade to ubb6. If i dont, well, maybe we'll meet again in some chat software, perhaps?...

cya.

Wicked hack! People may be clamouring for your blood if you don't do this for UBB6... this is one of those instantly-popular hacks.

A couplea things that you could change to make the code cleaner (I'm not suggesting that you do here, the benefits would be negliagable, but if you're interested in expanding your perl kowledge: )

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could be codensed to:

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Can usually be reduced to:

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Also, I'm not too sure about this line:

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I've got a feeling all of those ops have a left-to-right prescedence. If not, then my mistake, but if like me you don't know, it's always best to bracket them and guarantee they evaluate the way you want:

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Very good work.

Run and add it to the UBBDev database!

[ February 25, 2001: Message edited by: Borg_5x8 ]

CC! Nice one man! I'm sure people want this for UBB6.

who's tested this so far?