"You are not authorised to administer this board"

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 08, 2003 Posts: 4

I have just installed the beta bundle (Jan 7th 2004) but when I trie to enter the forum admin I get this error Code:

Code:

And I am logged in as Admin (superuser)

Any ideas? Please?

(sorry about my bad English, I'm Norwegian Wink

)

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 12, 2003 Posts: 7

I had the same problem. You should try to install an older version. Read this:
http://www.nukecops.com/postlite18306-.html

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 08, 2003 Posts: 4

Thanx, but it did not work, still the same error...

Any other ideas ?

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:14 am

I take it you mean you are logged in with the God account?

First thing to try is to clear your cookies, the same thing happened to me on my First nuke install and clearing the cookies fixed the problem for me.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 08, 2003 Posts: 4

Yes, I mean the God account. (not that I haven't tried 100 other admin accounts also Very Happy

)

And I have also tried the cookie solution, but no, I'm still "not authorised to administer this board" Sad

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

Edit the users table (using phpMyAdmin) and make sure your userid has a user_level=2.

Captain Joined: Oct 20, 2003 Posts: 335

http://bugs.nukecops.com/bug.php?id=205

modules/Forums/admin/pagestart.php

Locate at line 73:

global $admin;
$admin = base64_decode($admin);
$admin = explode(":", $admin);
$aid = "$admin[0]";
$sql = "SELECT radminforum, radminsuper FROM ".$prefix."_authors WHERE
aid='$aid'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
if ($radminsuper != 1 OR $radminforum != 1) {
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, "You are not authorised to administer
this board");
}

Replace with:

global $admin;
$admin = base64_decode($admin);
$admin = explode(":", $admin);
$aid = "$admin[0]";
$sql = "SELECT radminforum, radminsuper FROM ".$prefix."_authors WHERE
aid='$aid'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
if ($row['radminsuper'] != 1 OR ($row['radminforum'] != 1 AND
$row['radminsuper'] != 1)) {
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, "You are not authorised to administer
this board");
}
---------------
This code has ALWAYS (check on cvs) been wrong in pagestart.php, it's
just that previous versions "if (condition)" happened to always be
false.

-- StarkHalo

Nuke Cadet Joined: Dec 12, 2003 Posts: 7

Yes, this was clear for me, but I can not access phpBBMyAdmin.

This is what I got:

You are not allowed to access phpBBMyAdmin!

To access it I'm using:

User_ID: 2 with User_Level: 2

Nuke Soldier Joined: Sep 26, 2003 Posts: 17

Assisting a friend in using the Bundle.
She's using a December CVS download.

She too is having this issue problem.
The server admin is hosting her site for free and does not provide PhpMyAdmin. Server owner lacks support help.
I've tried changing what was needed at http://bugs.nukecops.com/bug.php?id=205 but all we get is a white screen.
SQL-Tap is available via the admin, but I don't see anywhere how to edit the user info. It does show that user_level is 1.
Any other way to edit so it reads level 2?

If pagestart.php can actually fix it, she has given me permission to allow someone into the FTP account to fix things. I've attempted with no success.
PM me please if this is something you can and will be considering to assist.

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

I have written a simple utility to allow you to update your nuke tables. Install this and you should be able to update the user level. Raven's MySQL Update Utility

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:10 am

XEULAS wrote:

http://bugs.nukecops.com/bug.php?id=205

modules/Forums/admin/pagestart.php

Locate at line 73:

global $admin;
$admin = base64_decode($admin);
$admin = explode(":", $admin);
$aid = "$admin[0]";
$sql = "SELECT radminforum, radminsuper FROM ".$prefix."_authors WHERE
aid='$aid'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
if ($radminsuper != 1 OR $radminforum != 1) {
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, "You are not authorised to administer
this board");
}

Replace with:

global $admin;
$admin = base64_decode($admin);
$admin = explode(":", $admin);
$aid = "$admin[0]";
$sql = "SELECT radminforum, radminsuper FROM ".$prefix."_authors WHERE
aid='$aid'";
$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
$row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);
if ($row['radminsuper'] != 1 OR ($row['radminforum'] != 1 AND
$row['radminsuper'] != 1)) {
message_die(GENERAL_MESSAGE, "You are not authorised to administer
this board");
}
---------------
This code has ALWAYS (check on cvs) been wrong in pagestart.php, it's
just that previous versions "if (condition)" happened to always be
false.

-- StarkHalo

All I must say is that you are a God. That fixed my Problem Smile

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:53 pm

You fixed my problem too, good job!

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Wow, what a team spirit we have here!

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 14, 2004 Posts: 1

FYI, I downloaded betaNC-20040307.tar.gz last night and this still appears to be a problem. I was able to fix it quite quickly using Dawg's code change.

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:56 am

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed in the latest "update" to 2.0.7. Come on guys!!