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Posted by Drussaxe, 06-15-2008, 10:14 PM i have a problem I'm the owner of a website/forum over the last year i have had health problems that forced me to let someone else administrate my site. What has become apparent to me is that during the last year this individual has been manipulating the situation to take over my site. What i would like to know given that all is in my name and that i have sole access to the master account. what do i need to do to make sure that if i have to rid myself of this person how do i protect my site. He has access to the cpanel within my master account mysql ect..and hasn't changed the pswrd yet, if he does change it i still have access through the master account, but i would need to know how i can reset that password if he does. and lock him out if i cant change the pswrd. Secondly he upgraded our forum to phpbb3 and in the proccess in the forum he has removed me as founder, and put himself as founder, i have asked him 3 times to put me to founder but he has yet to comply, and i have yet to make a big deal of this to avoid him taking action against me first, im not as tech savy as he is unfortunatly. For this i would need to know how to lock him out.Changing myself to founder and removing his access. also such as checking to see if he has created any sleeper admin accounts as a backdoor if i fire him. legally i would also need to know what i can do, if he takes a copy of our forum and creates a knockoff site with it as he has also been manipulating the site's membership and a split will most likely result if i take action against him, do i have any legal recourse even though we are in different countries? Any help would be great. if you need more details just let me know. Last edited by Drussaxe; 06-15-2008 at 10:18 PM.
Posted by SteadyTy, 06-15-2008, 10:26 PM I can't help you with the legalities, but i can take the time to help you get your forum back in your hands. If your interested shoot me a pm. Cheers, Ty
Posted by Drussaxe, 06-15-2008, 11:37 PM no access to pm's for some reason, you can email me at websiteproblem@gmail.com thanks
Posted by BookMarc, 06-16-2008, 01:39 AM i do hope that drussaxe helps you get your forum back. i own a phpBB forum myself and can point you in the general direction if need any extra help.
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