Edit users, even administrators
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In version 6 when you went to user administration and user icon, you saw administrators/group members first and then a long list with all other site users. That was really good because a lot of times I need to be able to set new passwords etc even for administrators. It can even happen that I want to ban an administrator if the person gets out of control. No matter what I need to do, it was good that the ability was there.
In version 7 the administrators disappear from the user list and I cannot find a way of editing those. All I can edit is their administration rights.
Is this a "bug" or is it meant to be this way...if the latter is the case, may I ask why? :)
In version 6 when you went to user administration and user icon, you saw administrators/group members first and then a long list with all other site users. That was really good because a lot of times I need to be able to set new passwords etc even for administrators. It can even happen that I want to ban an administrator if the person gets out of control. No matter what I need to do, it was good that the ability was there.
In version 7 the administrators disappear from the user list and I cannot find a way of editing those. All I can edit is their administration rights.
Is this a "bug" or is it meant to be this way...if the latter is the case, may I ask why? :)
Edited by mojkan on 28-07-2008 18:08,
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It is meant to be that way. Editing administrators could be abused to hijack sensible rights like panel or custom pages admin. however, we are discussing alternatives in the dev team
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How about you guys incorporate this (it's VERY uncomplete code, but you should get the idea):
The beauty of this code (in it's finished product :P ) is that it really gives superadmins significant power over admins. I don't know of many instances of this, except rank. Also, it's VERY easily configured - if you want another user to be able to edit whichever users, you would just add their rank, the other security stuff and their user_id.
Edit: remember, I haven't looked at the code for the user editing page one time yet. You'll have to incorporate this code yourself in whatever way works if you decide to use it.
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if (iSUPERADMIN && [i]other security stuff[/i] && $userdata['user_id'] == "1"){
// allow edits of all admins
}
elseif (iSUPERADMIN && [i]other security stuff[/i] && $userdata['user_id'] != "1"){
// allow edits of regular admins
else{
// disable allow of all admins
}
The beauty of this code (in it's finished product :P ) is that it really gives superadmins significant power over admins. I don't know of many instances of this, except rank. Also, it's VERY easily configured - if you want another user to be able to edit whichever users, you would just add their rank, the other security stuff and their user_id.
Edit: remember, I haven't looked at the code for the user editing page one time yet. You'll have to incorporate this code yourself in whatever way works if you decide to use it.
Edited by googlebot on 28-07-2008 19:40,
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Ok, thanks for the answer. As long as I as a superadministrator at my own site have the controll over "my employees" I will be satisfied no matter how it's done :)
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Look also in -> this thread.
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