[Done 1.4.0][Code] Global Moderators can no longer see Administor forums

[1979Z28]

If somebody can give me a legitimate good reason for admins fearing so greatly that global mods can see their posts, I'll start to come up with ideas to fix this

[UNICRON]

Right, If you look at the 10 most recent posts of an admin as a global mod, you see stuff in the admin only forum. I'll fix today. Sorry I haven't been around. I've been busy.

Legitimate reason for needing it.

One the site that I admin there are many Forum/Global Mods and we have several forums for them. There are three admins and we want to have a forum away from the mods (we have dozens of mods). Sometimes we discuss mod issues there and that isn't for mods to read. Also the mod forums are too busy for admin only stuff.

www.wilderssecurity.com

[UNICRON]

I edited the profile.php page in the userrecentposts() function. I removed the reference to the global mods as shown on the second to last line of this snippet. The last half of the line is commented out and the closing bracket added after the admin reference so that the $permit flag is not set for global mods. Now global mods cannot see admin only forums, but they can still see admin posts in mod only forums via the "show last  10 posts"  feature of the profile page.

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function usersrecentposts (){
   global $userid,$viewscount,$censored,$user,$membergroups,$settings,$username,$yyitle,$txt,$enable_ubbc;
   global $cgi,$img,$imagesdir,$enable_notification,$maxmessagedisplay,$color,$scripturl,$menusep,$db_prefix;
   $display = $viewscount;
   if (!is_numeric($display)){fatal_error($txt[337]);}

   $request = mysql_query("SELECT realName FROM {$db_prefix}members WHERE ID_MEMBER=$userid LIMIT 1");
   list($realName) = mysql_fetch_row($request);

   $permit = 0;
   if ($settings[7]=='Administrator')    /* || $settings[7]=='Global Moderator')  */



[Surfy]

then the global mod could read all!!

He can only say "show all posts" of an admin, and then he see every Post in the Admin Board...

Surfy  

[UNICRON]

I think you are mistaken Surfy, the flag set by the code I altered will not be set for a global moderator viwing the posts now.

This edit and the ones before it keep a global mod from seeing admin posts and links but won't stop them from guessing threadIDs. Also if a global mod posted in a n admin section before, you'll need to delete those posts since the posts of a global mod can stiff be viewed normally.

I will be locking up the admin section better during christmas, when this semester is over. Currently I have to trust my mods a bit. Most have no idea a threadID could be guesses or don't care. They are not in the habbit of thrying to hack our board.

[Bradley]

If somebody can give me a legitimate good reason for admins fearing so greatly that global mods can see their posts, I'll start to come up with ideas to fix this

Everyone deserves their privacy.

[Dataforce]

Hmm, a Yabb Pak or BoardMOD file would be nicer...

[[Unknown]]

Hmm, a Yabb Pak or BoardMOD file would be nicer...

Look for Big P's version for 1.5.x.

-[Unknown]

[Jeff Lewis]

I'm looking for 1.5.1 copy as well

[[Unknown]]

Here's a link:

http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?board=158;action=display;threadid=19565

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