Topic: More admin culling
started by: Darth Liberus
Posted by Darth Liberus on Jul. 09 2002,03:42
I just dropped two more people from the admins category:cr0bar -> normal member. He doesn't need admin and there's a chance RenegadeSnark knows his password.
BtC -> moderator; will be dropped to normal member unless someone explains to me why he needs more privs.
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A script has been installed that will immediately reset the proper privs on everyone's account... no, you can't have the URL. This is for emergency use only.
The following people are the only people allowed with admin rights:
Wiley
kuru
Darth Liberus / DSL
incubus
Wolfguard
kbreak
Everyone else gets dropped to "Member."
That is all.
Posted by Bozeman on Jul. 09 2002,03:43
It was nice while it lasted......even though I never did anything. Oh well.
Posted by Darth Liberus on Jul. 09 2002,04:00
no offense meant to anybody 
our security is just entirely too loose.
Posted by joelthegreat on Jul. 09 2002,04:01
Any chance you'll be getting a tape backup drive?
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 09 2002,04:09
I almost removed all the admins more than once todayBy kbreak I hope you mean forumwhore
Posted by Darth Liberus on Jul. 09 2002,04:36
all your aliases are in there.You will get a link to the URL and instructions on how to use it.
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 09 2002,04:40
Check your email!
Posted by Vigilante on Jul. 09 2002,05:27
I feel like I'm the only person that hasn't had a spin at admin. 
Posted by Wiley on Jul. 09 2002,05:53
Admin status is like a nice tip ..let it slide into your hand and quickly pocket it ...don't say a word ...don't look at it, you know it's a nice tip. You don't ever have to reach for it unless it's deperatly needed.
Posted by forumwhore on Jul. 09 2002,06:23
If you ever need anything, you got it.I'm cleaning house down to the bare walls.
Posted by Rhydant on Jul. 09 2002,06:30
i was a mod... i never figured out how to do anything special like lock topics or anything...
Posted by Uberkommando on Jul. 09 2002,06:39
I think it involves clicking on buttons that don't exist in this version of iB.On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know who the third House in Dune 2 was? Harkonnen, Atriedes, and who? This has been driving me insane for hours...
Posted by Vigilante on Jul. 09 2002,07:39
Ordos
Posted by Darth Liberus on Jul. 09 2002,10:11
After I accidentally banned all the admins 
*cough*, editor and I spoke on the phone and agreed that we needed to cut the admins down to the smallest # of people we could for the time being.I dropped my account back to "member" as well, so that my regular posts have no more authority than anyone else. Don't see why I should get a vanity license plate while everyone else has to have the standard ones.
my old DSL account will be used for any admin stuff I have to do.
Posted by TheTaxMan on Jul. 09 2002,10:44
The time being should mean, forever until extenuating circumstances arise.
Posted by Darth Liberus on Jul. 09 2002,11:43
Hopefully it will be fairly permanent. We need to tighten up security, and the fewer admins the better. As the need arises, though, they have first pick.
In the past, news posts could only be made by admins/moderators. This was a bad idea. We wound up making people moderators who shouldn't have been. A new group will be created that will allow people to make news posts without having access they don't need.
Posted by RadioActive on Jul. 09 2002,16:07
I truly hope that from all that has happened today you had finally learned that administering a site involves this site being backed on regular bases. Since there is almost no content or anything else worth saving, at least backup the mySQL database entire forums are on. It's no big deal to do it even by hand, automated process would be even easier. If there is one thing I learned from spending a lot of time in from on a computer it's to always make backups, especially if you have something very important (like forums for example).
Posted by compact3000 on Jul. 09 2002,22:15
How doya become an admin/mod?
Posted by Darth Liberus on Jul. 09 2002,22:16
it gets backed up by the webhost.I already emailed him and asked him to send me the MySQL database files so I can restore our posts.
Posted by Beldurin on Jul. 10 2002,00:08
| Quote (compact3000 @ 09 July 2002,16:15) |
| How doya become an admin/mod? |
not another one...
