phpBB Tutorial - Users' Administration

How to administrate users

 

phpBB is shipped with a very good user management system. It can be accessed from the menu on the left and its options are listed under the "User Admin" category.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Through it you can manage various aspects of your registered users.

 

1. From the "Ban Control" menu you can control the banning of users. You can achieve this by banning either or both of a specific user or an individual or range of IP addresses or hostnames. These methods prevent a user from even reaching the index page of your board. To prevent a user from registering under a different username you can also specify a banned email address. Please note that banning an email address alone will not prevent that user from being able to log
on or post to your board. You should use one of the first two methods to achieve this.

2. From the "Disallow names" menu you can control the usernames which will not be allowed to be used. Disallowed usernames are allowed to contain a wildcard character of *. Please note that you will not be allowed to specify any username that has already been registered. You must first delete that name and then disallow it.

3. From the "Management" menu you can change your users' information and certain options. To modify the users' permissions, please use the user and group permissions
system.

4. From the "Permissions" menu you can alter the permissions and moderator status assigned to each individual user. Do not forget when changing user permissions that group permissions may still allow the user entry to forums, etc. You will be warned if this is the case.

5. Using the "Ranks" form you can add, edit, view and delete ranks. You can also create custom ranks which can be applied to a user via the user management facility.

 

 

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