°Û °Û ÞÜ ±Û °Û °Û ÜÛÛ ÛÜ ±Û ²Û°ÛÛÛÛß°Û ÜÜÜ ±Û ÜÜ ÜÛÛÛÜ°ÛßßßÛ°Û °Û ÛÛ ° ÛÛ±Û ±Û ÛÛ ±ÛÛßßßÛÜ±ÛÛßß°ÛÜÜÜß °Û°ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ° ÛÛ±Û ±Û ÛÛ ±Û °Û±Û °ÛÜ °ÜÛßßÛ°Û °Û ßÛ ÛÛß °ÛÛÛ ßÛÛÜ°ÛßÛÛÛÛß±Û °ÛÛÛß°ÛÜÜÛ²°Û °Û Outbreak Magazine Issue #11 - Article 7 of 18 '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' Want admin on phpBB 2.0.0? -------------------------- PhpBB is a popular free bulletin board package available at phpbb.com, which google reports as having 100+ implementations at the time of writing this article. A coding error exists in the admin_ug_auth.php script (used to set permissions), which means that although admin rights are needed to view the page, anyone can post data back to it ”no questions asked”. Therefore, if you already know what kind of response the board is looking for, you can go straight ahead and tell it directly that you want to give admin rights to a specific account. If you do not already have an account on the board in question, you will have to create one. One way to test this would be to set up a board yourself, (which you have admin rights over) and edit a copy of the form used to update permissions, but for people who don’t want to goto those lengths, I’ve provided some sample code below: Before using the sample code you must first find out two bits of information which are both easily obtained. The base directory of the board, (usually something like http://www.mydomain.com/phpBB2), which is found by taking off index.php from the main page URL, and the user number of the account you wish to give admin. To do this go to the forums member list page, click your username, then note down the number shown at the right end of the URL you are now at. (if no users have been deleted from the board, then the number next to your username on the members list page under the “#” column will also be your true user number, but play it safe and use the one in the URL). When you have all the information, ensure you log out from the board. (otherwise, you will get a permissions error later on, as StankDawg discovered). Now edit the form action in the sample code above to be the full location of the boards base directory plus the location of the admin script. Usually, this is in a subdirectory from the base directory called /admin/. Your result should look something like this: action=http://www.domain_name/board_directory/admin/admin_ug_auth.php. Save the changes to your page when you are done. Next just call it in a local browser window, typing the user number you obtained into the user number box on screen, and hit submit. On your next log in, there will be a link at the bottom of every board page saying "Go to Administration Panel" and additional options will appear on screen when you are viewing a specific thread to enable you to edit, delete, lock individual posts/threads etc. by nick84 http://rootsecure.net http://www.stankdawg.com