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Users being suspended - not by admin

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Topic: Users being suspended - not by admin

Posted By: gbrandwood
Subject: Users being suspended - not by admin
Date Posted: 21 August 2003 at 2:23am

Hi folks

We are currently using forum version 6.34 - quite successfully I might add, and will no doubt eventually get around to upgrading soon.

But, this morning, two users contacted me telling me they had been turned back into a Guest and could not post. I checked and somehow they had been suspended.

There are only two people who know the admin password and neither of us has suspended them. They both have over 500 posts, BTW, but some other users have more and haven't been suspended.

Any ideas as to how they became suspended? It seems to have happened this morning.

I noticed that some of the security features could be bypassed with a little ingenuity (won't detail here) but surely you can't suspend people without knowing the password.

Please contact me off the board if necessary, but these anomolies are quite worrying.

Many thanks for any help you can give on this.

Kind regards

Gareth Brandwood