Admin account deleted!

[StoneHalo]

Is there anyway to re-create the admin account after it's accidental deletion?

I deleted a test user account but for some reason it's deleted the admin account

Thanks

[peterska2]

erm. Ooops.

I'm not sure if this will work but try :-

• register another account
• retrive config.php from your FTP client
• find

// ****** SUPER ADMINISTRATORS ******
// The users specified below will have permission to access the administrator permissions
// page, which controls the permissions of other administrators
$superadministrators = '1';

• change the 1 to whatever the user id is of the account you have just created.
• upload config.php
• in theory you should now be able to access the admin panel

hint - to prevent this happening in the future in config.php there is a setting for undeleteable/editable users. put the user id in there.

[StoneHalo]

Thanks for the reply but it didn't work, I still can't access the admin cp

[poolking]

Is there a getadmin.php file in the admin directory? If so use that. I think what people used to resolve this problem in vb2, I would think it would do the same thing if this file exists.

[StoneHalo]

I don't see a getadmin.php file.

If I run the install script again will it delete all the forum info? It is a new unused install but I don't want to lose all the forum info I've entered.

[Stadler]

Try setting your usergroupid to 6 (Admins) through phpMyAdmin.

[Steve Machol]

There is no getadmin.php file for vB3 yet. For now you will need to register a new account and change the usergroup of this account to 6 with phpMyAdmin.

[StoneHalo]

Thanks, that worked

I wasn't sure if I did delete the admin account by accident or what, but now I'm sure I didn't.

I just tried to delete another two user accounts and get the following message each time:

Could not find user with userid = 1.

For some reason it's trying to delete the admin account every time!

[StoneHalo]

I notice that in the AdminCP it reports every user as id: 1

Also get the following error when trying to view a user profile on the forum:

Invalid User specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster.

[Mysterioso]

I have the same exact issue. All new users are assigned the same id and user name regardless of what I enter, and if one is deleted I'm locked-out! What is the solution for this?



>I notice that in the AdminCP it reports every user as id: 1
>Also get the following error when trying to view a user profile on the forum:
>Invalid User specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

[StoneHalo]

I did what Mike suggested here - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs...view&bugid=1741 which worked for me

[Freddie Bingham]

Alternatively, upgrade to RC3 which has this integrated.

[Mysterioso]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm already running RC3. Tried mycookies.php to no avail. Deleted cookies manually, changed browsers, still no luck.

[Steve Machol]

Reupload the original init.php file from the RC3 zip file. Make sure you upload in ASCII and overwrite the one on the server.

[Mysterioso]

Thanks, Steve. I'll give it a whirl.