God account in nuke 7.4

New Member Joined: Mar 26, 2005 Posts: 8

Ok I know this is a newb ?? but I have seen information about god account for some of the links in sentinal that can only be used by the god account and have also seen in the admin panel edit admins that the god account cannot be deleted. Ok now here is the newb ?? of them all cause i cant find it ne where......How do I create a GOD account? My original install of nuke was done from cpanel on my host under fantastico so it was automaticaly. So for every thing I have learned about nuke so far i have yet to figure out how to make a God account for nuke admin. And I cannot acsess some of the links in sentinel admin. Says only god accounts can acsess. Thanks. Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:20 am

The God account is the first Admin user created apon install. Sometimes people change the "name" from God to whatever and there is a conflict when a script is designed to limit access based on that name.

As for Nuke-Sentinel there is a line commented out that can be used to replace the God based access with SuperAdmin access. Meaning any admin with SuperAdmin status can access those functions that are limited to god by default.

In the includes/sentinel.php

Find function is_god($admin)
Remove the // from this line and put them in front of the next line.
//if((strtolower($admrow['name']) == "god" OR $admrow['radminsuper'] == 1) AND $admrow['pwd']==$apwd) { return 1; }
if(strtolower($admrow['name']) == "god" AND $admrow['pwd']==$apwd) { return 1; }

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:24 pm

HMM...Ok I will try that. I was just wondering cause the admin panel said that god accounts could not be deleted and last thurs. my site was hacked and they got into admin panel and deleted all my admins...even the admin I created when I installed nuke from fantastico. I will try that scripts edit and see if I can accsess the links in sentinel that are for god admins only. Thanks.

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:24 pm

Maybe you'd best back up a little there. Make sure by checking with phpmyadmin that the nuke_authors table only contains valid users that you personally created. I would also verify the prescribed passwords work for those that you did create.

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:51 pm

Ya I checked they all good. Plus we went back to a backup that was over a month old and done a complete restore. And after we checked everything I installed sentinal. Smile

One problem i did run into is my who is where block. I had to reinstall it and I reinstalled it after I installed sentinel and the who is where block is not working now. The block shows up fine with no errors but not showing users or visitors that are on the site.

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The 2 should not be related. Check your server error log to see if there are any errors being posted.

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:01 pm

Okay - I have same problem, but in 7.5 with 2.9 patch. Fantastico so neither of us are gods but super users. I did what you said sixonetonoffun about taking out // and it's still not recognizing us as admin...yes, I checked myphpadmin and it shows us only as the authors...any ideas?

I know I found a fix for this last year but now I am not finding anything.

Thanks.

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:08 pm

If you mean that your NAME column in the authors table is NOT God, just use phpMyAdmin and modify it.

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:28 pm

Okay we did that and he still can't make sentinel do a thing. It's not recognizing any admins not even God...Is God gonna have to reinstall it or what... Sorry he's driving me nuts...any help you can offer is appreciated.

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:35 pm

If you are using the 2.9 patch then you need to make several changes as described in the NukeSentinel(tm) README. Have you made those changes? Also, see this post http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts5161-highlightdefined.html+forumadmin

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:47 pm

it's ok god got it