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Today I was in process of moving members from one group to another so I can delete the groups we are no longer using. When page refreshed, it said I don’t have permissions. I still show as ADMN but lost access to all but one control panel function. See attached image to what I am limited to:
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USER_MEMBERSHIP_LEVEL still shows Administrator

Should I delete the record for me found in:
ubbt_CACHED_PERMISSIONS
with CACHED_TIMESTAMP 15515511393

CP_PERMISSIONS are
a:1:{s:13:”APPROVE_POSTS”;i:1;}


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That is a odd wacked out time.
Unix time says it is
08/31/2461 @ 4:16pm
I would use the clear cache in the cp first and see if it rebuilds everything..

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You're going to need to restore from backups if you hosed your permissions, as this is a permission matrix required for forum functionality.


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The default groups which should never be deleted (i dont think its even possible to delete them) are the first 5. Which are titled as follows:
Group 1 - Administrators
Group 2 - GlobalModerators
Group 3 - Moderators
Group 4 - Users
Group 5 - Guests

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You could try the following route, but without knowing which main account groups you've changed / deleted, all I can offer is a guess in to where to begin troubleshooting. Especially since you haven't mentioned about having a backup to compare with.

Assuming that your account number is "2", and your table prefix begins with "ubbt_", manually or from with your phpMyAdmin, update your account USER_MEMBERSHIP_LEVEL to "Administrator"

UPDATE ubb_forum.ubbt_USERS
SET USER_MEMBERSHIP_LEVEL = "Administrator"
WHERE USER_ID = "2"


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Never thought about anyone attempting to delete the primary default groups.
I don't know how you would do that without database diving.


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Originally Posted by Geoff
USER_MEMBERSHIP_LEVEL still shows Administrator

Should I delete the record for me found in:
ubbt_CACHED_PERMISSIONS
with CACHED_TIMESTAMP 15515511393

CP_PERMISSIONS are
a:1:{s:13:”APPROVE_POSTS”;i:1;}

You should never edit the database unless you know exactly what you are doing.
And then do it with caution.


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Editing the database at all is not recommended or supported; the only tools that are supported are those which exist in the control panel.


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It was a group I added that I used the Group CP tool to move users from that group to default USER group and nothing that was original to UBB. I have not deleted the group I created. It was being used as the default group for new registrations and I wanted to stop using it and thought I had to move them out before I deleted the group I created in the CP.

I only hosed my user id access to the cp for some reason. I have not heard anything about other users. I still have access as a user with the one CP access seen in picture. I have not manually adjusted any db data as of yet besides changing issac to Administrator in ubbt_USER so he could poke around as I don’t have access theough the CP.

At this point I don’t think it has affected anyone but me. I will look for the db back up and attempt to replace db with it. Will be a first for me.


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I really do not think I hosed the permissions for the board as I did not do anything to the DB itself. It happened right after using the CP as I described above. Only my Id and suspect the cached permissions as it is one of only couple in that table. Again, I have not made changes directly to the board besides changing Issac to Administrator in the ubbt_USER table.


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Originally Posted by isaac
Assuming that your account number is "2", and your table prefix begins with "ubbt_", manually or from with your phpMyAdmin, update your account USER_MEMBERSHIP_LEVEL to "Administrator"

UPDATE ubb_forum.ubbt_USERS
SET USER_MEMBERSHIP_LEVEL = "Administrator"
WHERE USER_ID = "2"

Sorry. Misspelled your name in posts above. Can you see if you have admn access in our CP before I restore db from a backup.

I looked at the USER_MEMBERSHIP_LEVEL directly using phpMyAdmin and it says Administrator already.

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I have also preformed the same procedure several times in the UBB CP moving a group of people from one group to another without issue in past. It is like it over wrote a record for my permissions somewhere else besides the USER table. What other table record would have priority?


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I still suspect the ubbt_CACHED_PERMISSIONAS. Attached are print outs from the tables from 1/8 (pre issue) and 1/10. I am dragging my feet on restoring from the 1/8 back up as I am worried when I perform this action again in the control panel, I will have the same issue and want to help here before it happens again.

The other two with "APPROVE__POSTS" are my two GlobalModerators. As you see, these also changed after I performed the Group move in UBB CP.
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The user groups table is ubbt_USER_GROUPS.

If you've somehow managed to remove your entry from the groups table, below should re-insert you as an administrator:
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INSERT INTO ubb_forum.ubbt_USER_GROUPS (USER_ID, GROUP_ID) VALUES ('2', '1');

ubb_forum would be your db, ubbt_ would be your table prefix, and '2' would be your user id.


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I was user 2 and had administration assigned to me.

I restored from backup today. I am going to set up a test site to replicate issue to share as should be measure in place to prevent what I did moving people from one user group to another. I ended up being in the group along with our other moderators and all of us were impacted and lost moderator and above functions.

If I can replicate in test site, I will have a before and after db for you to compare and video capture of steps.


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