Try the following:
Backup your database first
If something goes wrong: restore the database backup
Backup your database first
Test the emergency founder account created, and you can then give it all permissions needed to edit your original founder account.In phpMyAdmin, run the following, which will create an admin user named Admin1 with a password of admin. From that point you should be able to get into the ACP.Change your table prefix if it is notCode:
INSERT INTO phpbb_users (user_type, group_id, username, username_clean, user_regdate, user_password, user_email, user_lang, user_style, user_rank, user_colour, user_posts, user_permissions, user_ip, user_birthday, user_lastpage, user_last_confirm_key, user_post_sortby_type, user_post_sortby_dir, user_topic_sortby_type, user_topic_sortby_dir, user_avatar, user_sig, user_sig_bbcode_uid, user_jabber, user_actkey, user_newpasswd) VALUES (3, 5, 'Admin1', 'admin1', 0, '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3', 'admin@example.com', 'en', 1, 1, 'AA0000', 1, '', '', '', '', '', 't', 'a', 't', 'd', '', '', '', '', '', '');
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See Executing SQL Queries in phpMyAdmin if you are unfamiliar with running database queries.
As soon as you have done this, use the temporary admin account to change the details on the original admin account, then delete the temporary account.
This is because:To remove the account you will first need to remove ???founder??? status from it: ACP > USERS AND GROUPS tab > Manage Users > Admin1 > Overview > Founder = No
- anyone could use that account to log in to your board if you didn't change the password.
- this temporary user has not been fully set up (e.g. it is not a member of the "Registered users" group, so it won't have normal access to your forums).
If something goes wrong: restore the database backup
Statistics: Posted by warmweer — Sat Nov 16, 2024 9:15 am