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In a classic case of nincompoopery, I created my own username on geeklog, gave it all permissions, then deleted the Admin and Moderator accounts.

Now, I can create another account named 'Admin' but it seems that some of the scripts use the uid instead of the actual name, specifically in the upper right corner of my site where it says Contact.

There's probably a couple of ways to fix it, the best way would probably be to re-create user number 2, and name it Admin, but other options I'm willing to do are to change the 'contact' uid to a different one, or to just get rid of the offending 'Contact' altogether. (I kinda wanted to do that anyway, but I'd rather do both, since there may be other places that tries to contact uid=2.)

I should also mention that I can't just login to mySQL and fiddle around. (as far as I know - I don't know much about mySQL, but I do know that when I putty into my buddies server it gives me an access denied for user message)

My site is at http://www.evilstudio.com/thegreedyturtle

I suppose I could just recreate the whole environment, but to be honest I'd like the learning experience.

All you need to do is to edit the header.thtml of the theme you're useing and remove the "offending Contact" entry. BTW why is it offending to you .
It's a legacy theme and it was hardcoded there.

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Sorry, just a figure of speech! There's nothing offensive about it, I just don't personally happen to like that specific location of where it's displayed. I guess I tend to like cleaner headers...

Thanks for your help!

Update: This tip has pretty much solved my 'problem' I changed the uid mailer to my account, and after a bit I commented out the Home / Contact thingy at the top. I still wish that I could recreate the user with an id of 2, but I don't think it'll be an issue really.

It will be an issue when you begin to administer plugins.. many of them rely on uid=2 rather than checking for root priviledges.

Really? They shouldn't do that. What if I made that user a normal user? Any examples for plugins that do that?

Geeklog itself doesn't require a user with uid=2 or a user named "admin". It only requires at least one user with "Root" permissions.

bye, Dirk

WHoop! I spoke before I thought.. I was thinking of denying page access and anon users rather than anything to do with admin.

You could play it safe and change the uid of your new Admin to 2 with PHPMyAdmin, or will that make it even more dangerous (that will depend of the activities made by your new Admin)...

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No, don't do that!

The uid must be kept in sync with the information stored in other tables, e.g. gl_group_assignments.

As I said, you don't need a user with uid=2 and any plugin that may require that is buggy and should be fixed.

bye, Dirk