Is there a way make a user the 'GOD USER'?

New Member Joined: Jun 16, 2007 Posts: 18

I have moved from phpBB2 Plus 1.52 to RavenNuke and all seems well, with some great help from these forums. Do I need a 'GOD USER'? I had one prior to importing the phpBB2 plus data.

I have a super user or admin account setup and can do nearly everything I need, however, if try an EDIT ADMINS sentinel bans me, I need to edit the sql data and remove my entry from database. I am thinking this is because I am not 'GOD USER', am I right?

Also, the config.php file suggests I rename the admin.php file to something else and modify the variable in the config.php accordingly.

When I do this the admin page displays but if I select any option such as Admin Modules I get an Access Denied page displayed.

Do I need to do anything else?

Sorry this post ended up being much larger than I anticipated.

Boss

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:45 am

You need to make sure your IP is 'protected' in Senteinl - in Sentinel admin use 'scan for new admins' and follow the prompts.
Ignore the advice about renaming the admin.php, it serves little benefit and can break some older modules.

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:45 am

Thanks,

However as I dont have a GOD USER set up I can not get to the option Scan for New Admins, it tells me this is for GOD USERS only. Can I recreate a GOD USER?

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:09 am

If one is not already made, you should have been prompted to create one when going to yoursite/admin.php
Is your nuke_authors table empty?

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:43 pm

Yes, there are two accounts in NUKE_AUTHORS table. These are the two accounts I have given admin rights to, If I use either of these accounts I have the problem I mentioned earlier.

What identifies a user as being a 'GOD USER'?

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:21 pm

The 'God' user is the first entry in the nuke_authors table any others are admins.
Only admin users appear in that table, the rest are in the nuke_authors table.

It sounds to me like you have an error in the table.

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:45 pm

Sorry, Im a bit confused.

Should there only be one entry in the nuke_authors table?

I notice in my tble I have one user with a counter of 0 and another of -1

Should I just delete these entries and the system will prompt me to create one?

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:11 am

I you delete them in PHPMYADMIN Nuke should prompt you to recreate them.

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:54 am

You need to check the 'radminsuper' field in that table. The god admin has a value of 1 all others should be 0
The table structure is

Code:




CREATE TABLE `nuke_authors` (


  `aid` varchar(25) NOT NULL default '',


  `name` varchar(50) default NULL,


  `url` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',


  `email` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',


  `pwd` varchar(40) default NULL,


  `counter` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',


  `radminsuper` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '1',


  `admlanguage` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',


  PRIMARY KEY  (`aid`)


) ENGINE=MyISAM;

registered · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:32 am

Actually, in order to get one of these admins to be the GOD admin, you must change the name field for that admin to be "God".

The radminsuper field is only to tell between a superuser admin (which is not the God admin per se) and a non-superuser admin.

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:37 pm

Thanks for your help.

I have changed the name of one of the admins to GOD as per mentego's advice. I can now access all of sentinel options as that admin. However, (Sorry theres always a gotcha!), when I select EDIT ADMINS I get an blank page with access denied!

Thanks

Boss

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:06 pm

Are you logged in as the admin whose name you changed to GOD when you try to do edit admins. GOD is the only one who can edit admins.

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:57 pm

OK, so I need to create a user just for managing admins and Sentinel?

Do the admins in the nuke_authors table need to also be a registered user in the nuke_users table?

In the words of Freddy Mercury and Queen...."Im going slightly mad...."

Im having trouble getting my head around how it all fits together.

Boss Bang Head

Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:38 pm

No, here, dont delete any admin names from the nuke_authors table.

Do this instead.

Pick YOUR admin account, open up phpmyadmin, look under your nuke_authors table, the aid field will stay the same, and is the adminname in which you will log into admin panel, so lets say your admin name is joecool, well in nuke authors table you will find that one entry has joecool under the aid.

Now that you have your aid figured out, edit that row, and change whats in the name column to God

Use it just as I have typed it out.

Now you have just made your admin account a God admin.

Good luck, let us know how it worked out for you.

Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 7:04 pm

Thats exaclty what I have done, but I get an 'Illegal Operation' error when I go to the EDIT ADMINS option.

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:26 am

boss, you have referred in previous postings as having used "GOD". Please make absolutely certain that it is "God". It is case sensitive.

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:14 pm

Thanks Montego, That was the problem, I had GOD, changed it to God and it works fine.

thanks for the great responses and support guys.

If any one is interested to see how I have used RVN here is my site

http://www.oztorque.com (Sorry, please edit this post if Im not allowed to post my website url)

Boss