Banned... Huh?

Hangin' Around Joined: Mar 08, 2005 Posts: 44

So the deal is I was having difficulties logging into admin... finally I found my admin account name (which I had thought I changed) by looking in the MySQL database. On a separate Firefox Window I tried logging in.

No problem. I go to add another admin (one for me, and one for a buddy), and I get a message that says I was attempting to hack the Auth table of the database and that I was banned.

No biggie, right... just go into the banned table and remove my IP... well, when I get into the MYSQL database... I can't browse! I can see the listed tables, I can click on them... but when I try to hit browse to get into the table, I get a little circle with a red X and the word "browse" is greyed out.

Need help here!

Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:40 pm

Ok... adding to this now...

After a short time I was able to finally get into the appropriate table, and lo and behold there was my IP. Easy fix... just remove it and head back to the site. Well... now, everytime I go to the website I get this:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

What do I do to fix this? I've already deleted my cookies, cache, history... everything (I use Firefox). But I still get that message after doing that.

registered · Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:21 pm

Most likely you still have a ban in your .htaccess file

Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 7:31 am

How do I go about fixing that?

Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 1:25 pm

Download .htaccess, delete your IP, upload it back

Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 5:32 pm

Ok did that... and it worked! Now, unfortunately... everytime I go into the admin panel (logged in) and click on "Edit Admins" to add one... I get this:

You have been blocked from entering this site.

You have attempted an Authors Table attack on this site.

All of the following information has been gathered to assist the webmaster should this need to be reported to local or federal law enforcement.

If you think this is a mistake you can contact the site webmaster at Admin(at)TacticalGamingNetwork(dot)com.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Remote Address: 67.177.193.150
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2007-05-26 @ 16:28:15 MST GMT -0700
Block expires: Permanent

How do I stop this from happening? Better yet, why is this happening?

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:02 am

Trying clearing your cookies and cache. Then try again.

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 8:39 am

jakec wrote:

Trying clearing your cookies and cache. Then try again.

Same thing happens everytime.

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 2:23 pm

Try adding your IP address to the protected ranges. This should stop you from being banned each time.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 4:28 pm

I did that also... keeps telling me...

Begone

In the upper left corner. This is after I click on the Admin Users link. Every other link works fine... I checked them all... the admin button is the only one where this happens.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:53 am

I'm running out of ideas. Confused

It would be worth upgrading to the latest version of RN and see if it fixes the problem.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 2:01 pm

are you sure you are logged in as god admin when doing edit admins?