I can't figure this one out and my board is in shambles as a result.
When I login as Admin (my normal login) I can do all the Admin options but when I try and delete or lock a message thread it isn't allowing me to login and authenticate as Admin. IOW, I go to the Admin options (and signon the same way) and it allows me to change the board settings or user options, but I can't do anything at an admin or moderator level in any of the forums or message threads.
Is there anyway to reset this thing (even at an FTP level)?
Any idea what I can do? I even tried creating another user for me with the thought I would make him mod -- except that I can't make him mod because I don't have the priviledge.
I suppose I can try monkeying around with the Access database -- I think I can make that alternate user a moderator that way.
Maybe you can create another user and tell me his member id. I'll post some code here for you to change him into an admin, using the Alternate Mod Setup window. Then you can check whether that happens with other admins as well.
Just for your information (for the future) I solved the problem by editing the database itself and changing my password for the admin (what I actually did was copy the encrypted password for my new user into the admin password and that seemed to solve the problem).
My hunch is this had something to do with cookies -- that for some odd reason the password and/or user name was stored correctly for the "normal" admin functions but not for the mod functions (which require a separate login process). Even though I was manually entering the password over what my cookies were supplying somehow things weren't working. In any case, by manually editing the database and FTPing it back up I seemed to have things sorted out. Whew!
Login to the admin options does not involve cookies. A session variable is used instead. I guess the cookies might very well be the cause for your problem.
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Posted - 08 August 2005 : 17:31:55
