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Creating an admin with limited powers, or a moderator with extra powers [message #21813] Sat, 18 December 2004 12:23 Go to next message
srchild is currently offline  srchild   United Kingdom
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As admin only I can approve new registrations.

I want to let someone else be able to approve (and delete/ban) new registrations (e.g. when I am away).

I don't want to make anyone else an admin because that would give them power to mess up things on my server on which I have other websites (e.g. if they change Data Root that might cause havoc, or if they enable pdf Complete Forum Output that could overload the server), and also to mess up forums other than the ones they moderate.

Is it possible to give a moderator limited admin powers, or to make someone an admin and restrict their permissions? The main power I'm interested in is approving new registrations (and power to delete/disable users) though I might think of others.

Thanks


Simon Child
Re: Creating an admin with limited powers, or a moderator with extra powers [message #21818 is a reply to message #21813] Sat, 18 December 2004 17:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Only admin has the power to approve registration, if you want someone else to do it either make them an admin and modify the forum's code.

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Help! This may not be relevant, but how do you....... [message #21893 is a reply to message #21813] Sun, 26 December 2004 23:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
donofkampuchea is currently offline  donofkampuchea   United States
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My computer, windows 2000pro, I can't install programs or anything because it said I do not have enough rights, saying user with administrator rights can do it- the problem, I cant logon unto the account with admin. right or create a new one because I don't know the administrator's password for me to have those rights.


My question is:
* How do I create a new user that would would have administrative rights and access without loggin onto the admin.-so to do it from the limited users or restricted users group. I know this can be done, but I don't know how.

I stumble once upon a website,( Unf. I don't remember that web either) It tells you how to write a few code in notepad and save it as a .bat file and open it, then it creates for you a new admin.

* Can it be done in Dos- I just used the "net user admin /add" and it adds an account called admin, how how do I apply rights to that account, did it go some where like this, "net user admin /localgroup/ administrator/ add" or what? I try that but not work. Some expert here can help me out creating a new account with administrative control withoutlogging into the admin. accounts with admin rights already?

Please help me, I'm locked out of my own computer!

Thanks guys
Re: Help! This may not be relevant, but how do you....... [message #29549 is a reply to message #21893] Fri, 30 December 2005 16:36 Go to previous message
Marticus   United States
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Sorry about your problems, in case you haven't figured it out, this has nothing to do with creating an admin user in the fudforum software. Check the context before you reply to something you found in a google search. Things aren't always as they first appear. Do a google search for a tool called called chntpw.
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