Make Password Unalterable

[Alastor]

How can I prevent a user from changing their own password?

Note, it's just one user. Not multiple users.

[Reeve of Shinra]

Add them to the unalterable user list in the config.php file??

[Alastor]

Add them to the unalterable user list in the config.php file??

Will that prevent a password change?

Edit: I'ma go find out. I don't think it will, but I'ma find out.

[Alastor]

Results: No, that only prevents someone in the admin CP from altering the user. The user itself can still change their own password.

[Steve Machol]

Sorry, there is no function to do this. This requires modifying the code. We cannot officially support code modifications or forums running modified code, however you can try searching or asking for help with this over at www.vbulletin.org.

[Alastor]

Thankee, Steve.

[Cromulent]

Thankee, Steve.

Probably the easiest way would be to wrap the change password areas of your template with a conditional that hides them from that one user.

It wouldn't fix it as such but it would make hard enough to deter a casual forum user from changing their password.

[Alastor]

Probably the easiest way would be to wrap the change password areas of your template with a conditional that hides them from that one user.

It wouldn't fix it as such but it would make hard enough to deter a casual forum user from changing their password.

But that would apply to all users, no?

[Cromulent]

But that would apply to all users, no?

Nope. Just set the conditional to exclude one usergroup and then add the users who you do not want to change their passwords to that usergroup.

I believe you can also set conditionals to exclude just one userid if you like but that means if you ever want to exclude more than one user the list becomes quite long .

[Alastor]

Nope. Just set the conditional to exclude one usergroup and then add the users who you do not want to change their passwords to that usergroup.

I believe you can also set conditionals to exclude just one userid if you like but that means if you ever want to exclude more than one user the list becomes quite long .

Very interesting. I don't want to modify the base code, so this may be the better mouse-trap. Thank you very much!

[carntheroos4eva]

Thankee, Steve.

Hmmm what happens if your members' accounts got hacked and they all had the same password?

My suggestion is to leave it as it is mate. Tell them that their password has to be something that they know and nobody else knows.

[Alastor]

Hmmm what happens if your members' accounts got hacked and they all had the same password?

Um... What? That's not what I'm talking about and I'm confused as to how you came to this conclusion given what's been written in the thread here.

I don't know, nor do I care, what the passwords of my users are. I want to make one account have a password I set and make it impossible for anyone to change it.

[glennybee]

Use the following conditional:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid'] != x">
</if>

Where x is the userid of the member. This means...if userid = x, don't show them this information but show it to all other members.

Now edit the USERCP_SHELL template and add the conditional around the following code:

<tr><td class="$navclass[password]" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editpassword">$vbphrase[edit_email_and_password]</a></td></tr>

[Alastor]

Thank you, glennybee!

I sincerely appreciate it.

[Freebord]

the conditional code didn't seem to work for me. i edited the USERCP_SHELL template and inserted the code like so:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid'] != bob">
<tr>
<td class="$navclass[password]" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editpassword">$vbphrase[edit_email_and_password]</a></td>
</tr>
</if>

but when i go to login as userid bob, i'm still able to change the email and password. am i doing something wrong? many thanks in advance.