Admin can't login

Hangin' Around Joined: Jul 20, 2006 Posts: 41

I can login with the god account and the second admin's account, but she can't login with either. She's not blocked, I checked, but I cannot figure this out.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:20 pm

Great, I just went to the edit admins page and got banned.

"You have attempted an Authors Table attack on this site."

WTF is going on?

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6432

Only the god account can edit admins. If you were logged in as the second admin's account, you would probably get blocked trying to edit admins.

What error does the second admin get?

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:26 pm

Well, I now can't check my PMs to find out, because I'm blocked. How do I get back in on the god account?

Gah!!! :S

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 1:48 pm

I understand the frustration. If you are blocked by .htaccess, rename the htaccess file or remove your IP address from there. Next, remove your IP address from the NukeSentinel blocked IPs table using phpMyAdmin. You should then be able to log back in as an admin. Make sure you go to NukeSentinel and protect / update your admins.

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:28 pm

Thanks kguske, always quality help from you. Smile

I've done that. I am trying to get the second admin in on the god admin account. The site actually belongs to her anyway. She'll let me know what errors she gets.

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:22 pm

Make sure you add her IP to Sentinels Protected Range first!

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:03 pm

Thanks guardian.

Thinair says the message she gets is:

Quote:

'Login Incorrect! Please Try Again...'

Obviously, I've made sure she's using the correct UN/PW. This happens whatever computer she tries in on.

Will try to get her IP and make sure it's protected.

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:14 pm

You can find instructions for resetting the admin password by searching the forums here. But you might also want to check the NukeSentinel configuration table to make sure that admin authentication is off (set to 0) until after you verify access to the admin page, verify your admin users are setup in NukeSentinel and protect your IP.

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:02 am

kguske wrote:

you might also want to check the NukeSentinel configuration table to make sure that admin authentication is off (set to 0)

Thanks again kguske, but you lost me there. Not too sure of PHPMyAdmin/MySQL. I'm pretty n00by at all this stuff.

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:54 am

That's it! Very Happy

I reset the passwords and made sure the admin accounts and IP ranges were protected in NukeSentinel and that's it solved.

Thanks again kguske and Guardian. Smile

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:00 am

Glad you are working.