That's a cPanel thing. It allows you to delete that particular user from accessing the database

Yes I know.
Thats what I mean.
How was a user deleted???

I suspect the damn tech on hostmonster had me change the main password which now does not match the password I see in the Config.inc.php you had me check

Sound right ? if it no longer matches then forum fails to load ?

That is a function that allows user (admin) to click and delete existing database(s)

Thats correct.
You need to probably start over.
Meaning add a user and password to the ubb database.
Then edit the config.inc.php to match it.
Or vice versa. Check the config file and add a user and password to the database that matches the config file.
Your call.

OK guys thanks for the help

in 10 plus years of running UBB this is only the 2nd time it was non working :-(

Problem is the morons at hostmonster did backup restore so forum is back up but all posts for the last week are gone :-(

That's probably because the backup file was a week old.
Might be time to consider your own backup routine.
For a CYA situation like this in the future.

Ugh, sorry to hear that. Why did the do a backup restore in the first place? Did they do that for all of the databases on that server or just for you?

Rick support at Hostmonster pure stinks,

They caused all this as they supply Zen Cart a frontstore software.
A update of it wacked a Admin function, HM tech said it was a database issue

Add to problem I suspect HM has had hacking problems and was forcing all domain owners to change master passwords.

Well when the phpadmin was used old password had to be changed BUT it also changed then password to all databases

Bitch is I find the Zen Cart problem was the vendor of software coding issue and not a DB issue.

Thus HM idiots instead of knowing the password was the issue forced a 1 week backup ( they wanted to delete the UBB forum and I reinstall and I refused !)

To make it worse I had told them NOT to do the backup as I changed the PW in the config file to new one so forum was back up
Then they did do the back up so now old PW was used so forum was down again and I just had to change PW back to old password again

Happy Admin Sunday blown day :-(

That sucks.
Chasing a problem all day that keeps changing and was never something you did to begin with.