• Lesson Index:
• Overview
• Installation
• Admin Panel
• User Rank
• User Registration
• Admin Email
• COPPA Regulation
• User Admin
• Adding Forums
• Member-Only Forums
• Moderators
• Disable Forum
• Backup Database
• Admin Password
• Upgrades
• phpBB Skins

Site Admin Password:

To change the site admin's password, the site admin should log into the main forum, not the Admin Panel. There you can click Profile and change the password ...

Adding Additional Admins

An site admin can make any other user also a site admin by ....

This is useful if one site admin goes on vacation. But note that all site admin have equal and full privileges. So one admin can downgrade the status of another admin back to a regular user level. But don't worry, if you are truely the site admin who have access to the MySQL database on the webhost, you can always give yourself site admin privileges by changing the user_level field of the phpbb_users table to 1.

It is interesting to note that an site admin can not change himself or herself to become a regular user.

After giving the user site admin privileges, you might also want to go to User Admin -> Management and change the user title to "Site Admin" as well. This is only for display on the boards.

Next

In the next lesson, you will learn how to upgrade your forum to a newer version.