| Stop The Forums Running Themselves [message #37476] |
Sun, 27 May 2007 19:40  |
Dustin Kowalski
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Hi all:
This is quite serious actually.
My forums control themselves. I'll come online to find threads locked, friends on ignore, and others banned.
This was really serious last week. There are two admins, and the generic 'admin' account. For whatever reason, the other admin and the 'admin' account had been banned, and I didn't do it. Had mine been banned too, we'd have been in serious trouble.
Anyway, I've just discovered that seven more people have been banned incorrectly, and a guy with 13 posts is now an 'unconfirmed user'.
I have no idea what's happening.
It may have been building for a while. For instance, if I send a private message or make a post, it's not unusual for the screen to make the post, but take me to another thread, instead of leaving me in the current one.
Evidently, I have grave concerns about this. It's frustrating anyway having to go through the members list unbanning people and unlocking threads, but I'm particularly concerned about what will happen if the two admins and the generic 'admin' account get banned.
Please help,
Tim
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| Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves [message #37482 is a reply to message #37476] |
Mon, 28 May 2007 22:49  |
Ilia
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Check which users have admin priveleges via the admin control panel. It sounds like your have a rogue admin. You should also check the Action Log Viewer
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| Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves [message #37486 is a reply to message #37476] |
Tue, 29 May 2007 10:09 |
Dustin Kowalski
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Thanks Ilia. There's no issue regarding having an extra admin: it's just me, the other guy, and the generic 'admin' account.
However, the Action Log revealed who the rogue is ... it's me.
Everything with a star next to it is stuff that my account has done, but that I personally have not.
The strange thing is that these changes are genuinely happening whilst I'm online ... they're not happening at times when I've logged out, so I can say that it doesn't appear to be that I have left myself logged into someone else's computer.
OK, what would we suggest as the best course of action?
Upgrade or reinstall the forums?
Maybe I should remove my admin permissions? I'm thinking that if I did that, *my account* would no longer be able to ban the others etc. I could always use 'admin' for admin purposes. I'd rather not have to delete my account if we can help it; most of my posts are learning materials, so I would have to redo them, which would be a major frustration seeing as I have more than a thousand of them!
It just seems very, very strange though.
I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks, Tim
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| Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves [message #37628 is a reply to message #37476] |
Sun, 10 June 2007 12:18 |
Dustin Kowalski
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Well, I've renamed my old account "Tim (Jinxed Account)", changed the password, logged it out, and removed its admin privileges.
Nonetheless, what did I notice a few minutes ago?
So, I obviously need to delete the account. Just to double check; if I do that, it won't delete the posts will it? I made 1,100 posts on that account, and they're responsible for the bulk of the site's infrastructure. (It's an educational site, so the posts are still relevant for research's sake.)
(I noticed that there's a 'delete' option and a 'delete posts' option. Just need to be sure that choosing to delete the account won't wipe out the posts.)
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| Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves [message #37629 is a reply to message #37628] |
Mon, 11 June 2007 01:58 |
Ilia
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You can ban the account. That would prevent future access. If you delete the account all messages in that account will be moved to anonymous user.
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| Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves [message #37640 is a reply to message #37476] |
Mon, 11 June 2007 21:42 |
Dustin Kowalski
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Heh! I'm glad we chatted on the phone Underhand, else I wouldn't have understood a word of that! 
Ilia; I have a feeling where the problems come from. When I chat with friends from another forum (IPB not FUD) we sometimes paste links to each other. When I follow the link, I enter those forums with my own account. Nonetheless, when I do the same with FUD, my friend follows the link, and enters as *me*, complete with admin privileges. I've posted links before in public, so that would appear to be where the problem comes from.
Maybe in future versions, it would be a good idea to not include session IDs in addresses, or to have sessions automatically log out after, say, a week.
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| Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves [message #37641 is a reply to message #37640] |
Mon, 11 June 2007 22:11 |
Ilia
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That seems highly unusual because one, the URL sessions have additional validation SID and browser signature. You can always disable URL sessions.
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