You edit administrator permissions using the Administrator Permissions Manager.
Note:
You must click Save for changes to take effect.
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Administrator Yes/No Permissions
Following is a list of the administrator Yes/No permissions, which are all set by default to Yes.
You can toggle back and forth between “All Yes” and “All No” using the All Yes and All No buttons at the top of the form. You can also set any of the options individually.
Can Administer Settings
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Settings > Options menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer Languages
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Languages & Phrases menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer Channels
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Channel Management menu of the Admin CP.
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Can Administer Topics
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Topics & Posts menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer Calendars
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Calendars menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer Users
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Users, Usergroups, User Infractions, User Profile Fields, User Ranks, User Reputations, User Titles, and Paid Subscriptions menus of the Admin CP.
Can Administer User Permissions
Whether or not an administrator can access the Usergroups > Channel Permissions and Users > Access Masks submenus of the Admin CP.
Can Administer FAQs
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the FAQ menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer Avatars / Icons / Smilies
Whether an administrator can access functionality in the Avatars, Post Icons, and Smilies menus of the Admin CP.
Can Administer BB Codes
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Custom BB Codes menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer CRON
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Scheduled Tasks menu of the Admin CP.
Can Run Maintenance Tools
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Maintenance menu of the Admin CP.
Because this permission allows an administrator to run code directly on your site server, ensure that you trust this administrator to do that correctly before setting the permission to Yes.
Can Administer Products
Whether or not an administrator can manage external products used by your site.
Because this permission allows an administrator to run code directly on your site server, ensure that you trust this administrator to do that correctly before setting the permission to Yes.
Can Administer Notices
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Notices menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer Moderator Log
Whether or not an administrator can view the moderator log available through the Statistics & Logs menu of the Admin CP.
Even if this option is set to Yes, permission to prune moderator logs is still limited by the "users with admin log pruning permissions" setting in includes/config.php.
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Can Administer XML Sitemap
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the XML Sitemap menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer Ads
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Advertising menu of the Admin CP.
Can Administer Tags
Whether or not an administrator can access functionality in the Tagging menu of the Admin CP.
Can Set Default User Profile Styling
Whether or not an administrator can override a user’s customized profile.
Can Use Sitebuilder
Whether or not an administrator has access to the Sitebuilder functionality in the front page.
Other Administrator Permissions
The other two administrator permissions are the following:
Control Panel Style Choice
The style this adminstrator sees, by default, in the Admin CP.
The administrator can override this setting on the login screen.
Dismissed vBulletin News Item IDs
The comma-separated list of news item IDs that have been dismissed by this administrator.
To reset the list, remove all contents from the field.