creating new admin in vbulletin?

[brainst0rm]

SUPPOSE,

I lost vbulletin admin pass. Forgotten pass doesn't work.
Is it possible to create new admin user from CPANEL or phpmyadmin?

Thanks.

brainst0rm Reviewed by brainst0rm on 26th Dec 2010. creating new admin in vbulletin? SUPPOSE, I lost vbulletin admin pass. Forgotten pass doesn't work. Is it possible to create new admin user from CPANEL or phpmyadmin? Thanks. Rating: 5

[Royal King]

You can get the pass via the members table. You should know decoding for that :/

[brainst0rm]

if i am not wrong, its MD5 encoded right?
But instead of all those things, can i create a new user via user table and give it admin previlages from phpmyadmin?

[bxflow]

I believe its MD5 + Salt

Try googling because I think you can reset it or make a new one thru PHPMYADMIN

[SuicidalMedia]

Just login to PHPMyAdmin, select your forums database. Go to 'user' table, click edit on your admin account.




Replace the old MD5 hash with the new one which you generate via this Website:

http://www.adamek.biz/md5-generator.php

After that change your password via User CP.

[ProtoWorker]

Just login to PHPMyAdmin, select your forums database. Go to 'user' table, click edit on your admin account.




Replace the old MD5 hash with the new one which you generate via this Website:

http://www.adamek.biz/md5-generator.php

After that change your password via User CP.

Hey, I guess we need not generate MD5 hash for that, just replace the current field with you new password and select MD5 from the drop-down menu and you are done. I did this many times and never encountered a problem

And @ OP.
If you wanna add a new admin, just register under a new user name and proceed to the phpmyadmin -> your database -> users -> search for your new username -> replace usergroupid with your ADMIN GROUP ID and you are done

Regards,
ProtoWorker.

[hiwaar]

Prior to reaching your forum throgh googling my question: "
In vBulletin 4 how can Iadd a user as administrator using the PHP admin db? This is due to to me not being able to login as administrator despite all efforts of changing the password using the one I created for another user!"


I alreday tried all of the above but the problem persisit. I still can not login as administrator, but as a normal user. Our forun which belong to a human rights web society has been a target of spammers and we need to log in to the admin panell. Any help or advice would be higly apprecited.
the forum located at
http://hiwaar.org/vb/login.php?do=login