How to make a new System Account in Vanilla?
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How do you make a new account that has the role "System" in it, much like the System account that Vanilla comes with, but how do you make another account or even a bot in Vanilla 2.1b2?
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How do you make a new account that has the role "System" in it, much like the System account that Vanilla comes with, but how do you make another account or even a bot in Vanilla 2.1b2?
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If you just want a new System user, delete Garden.SystemUserID from your config and a new one will be created the next time it's needed.
Or, you can edit the System account to be named whatever you want, which is what I recommend.
If you really need a second bot account for some reason, the only thing that makes the account special is having a '2' in the Admin column on the User table. You could manually change that in the database on any user account.
It is extremely important any System-level account have an unguessable password for obvious reasons.
@Lincoln What do you mean by '2' in the database? I'm guessing the UserID which I am looking at right now in my phpMyAdmin with my host
No. There is a column called 'Admin'. That is where the 2 goes. Most users will have a zero there. The first user you created (during setup) will have a 1. Any bot has a 2.
@Lincoln Is there a number after that? Is there a documentation post that has a full list of the Admin column numbers?
Nope & nope.
The best documentation Vanilla has, which is always up to date, is the source code.
I highly suggest reading and understanding the core classes. Start perusing
/library/core. The code is well written and in general the comments are helpful.OK. I'll try