Thanks for your help. I'll take a look at the relevant files later today.
2 2006-10-21 14:54
Topic: Temporary Bans (3 replies, posted in Feature requests)
Hi guys,
I occasionally give short (i.e. one or two day) bans to people on my board for repeated rulebreaking. The problem here is that the word 'BANNED' in their title is a little strong and generates unnecessary noise. People email me to complain that I shouldn't be banning people for minor transgressions; I also get banned users re-registering to make a fuss.
What I'd like to be able to do is have TWO titles for banned users:
Banned for when the ban is permanent (i.e. never expires), and
Probation for it's temporary, maybe with "Can't post for XX hours" underneath.
Is this possible? And if so, how?
Cheers!
3 2006-10-16 00:24
Re: Admin: Changing user passwords (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
The easiest solution is to update the conversion tool to put random passwords into the relevant field rather than leaving them blank.
4 2006-10-14 20:02
Re: Admin: Changing user passwords (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
I'm concerned that this problem will surface once again when someone else makes the move to PunBB. It's up to you guys to decide whether you want to do something about it, but since the converter is the only obvious way to migrate from e.g. vBulletin, and since the converter a) can't copy passwords and b) is no longer updated, there is only one obvious answer.
Anyway, thanks again for your help. I'm off to play with some settings 
5 2006-10-14 19:13
Re: Admin: Changing user passwords (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Well naturally that works
I think it's probably a bug of some description though, no?
6 2006-10-14 19:04
Re: Admin: Changing user passwords (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
The files are identical.
Just a guess here, but does:
if (!empty($db_password_hash))
...not imply that the user's password can be changed using this method only if it already exists? All my users were imported using the migration tool and as such have no passwords...
7 2006-10-14 17:11
Re: Admin: Changing user passwords (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Nope, the board has no bolt-on extras. And I've made no changes to the PHP.
Every other admin-specific function appears to be working just fine. It's just this one small problem.
Thanks for taking the trouble to help out.
8 2006-10-14 16:52
Topic: Admin: Changing user passwords (11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
I've just successfully migrated 2,200 users and more than 220,000 posts from vBulletin 3.x.x to PunBB and I have one small problem
As part of the migration, everyone's passwords were reset. Most people have had no trouble requesting their new ones, and are now logging just fine. However, one user has received the password but is having difficulties. I suspect user error, but I did say that as admin I would change it for him.
On visiting the Administration areas and filling in his new password I get the error:
Wrong old password.
Trouble is, there's no 'old password' field for me to fill in. And of course I don't know it anyway!
Is this a known problem? I've run a couple of searches here and came up with nothing.