globeadmin account name...

[Overtkill]

Hi,

Is there a way to change or shorten the name of the globaeadmin account name? Reason being, my host uses CPanel, and insists of sticking the account domain name into every MySQL login account, which results in the account name being too long if I try to use globeadmin as the admin name. I.E. The account would appear as domainname_globeadmin. I have already inquired to the hosting company about a way around this by maybe altering my account name in some way to make it work. But it seems that they aren't amiable nor flexible to the idea. They like their system as it is, which brings me to you guys, the creators of this software that I have yet to try.

Our project will be an interesting one for an online game item database. We really need a platform that would not only help up create a process for entering in the items, but a fast way for others to query the database we will create.

Thanks a bunch for your time. It is greatly appreciated.

-Overt.

[admin]

Overt,

Sorry but its not that easy, of course this is open-source so you can change anything you like, but what about future versions?

Maybe you could find a better host.

Steven

[quaxth]

The OP is right!

I was also asking myself: Why the Hexx I couldn't chose the Admin names as I like? I facing the exact same problem with my Hosting provider.

Most of the Hosting Providers using the same naming. To avoid that you'll need to change to an dedicated Webserver which will be to much expensive for a starter or a small business. For the normal hosting the users didn't have access to the Root of the webserver because the hoster is sharing the websevers to keep the costing low.

In real it shouldn't be a "big" deal for to set the Admin name for nuBuilder as changeable by User to the name they prefer.

[shane]

The globeadmin user name and password is not stored in mysql and does not need a mysql account, we have installed nuBuilder many times in a cPanel environment.
Please refer to installation instructions.

[Overtkill]

I saw no mention of a way to easily change the globeadmin account name in the instructions for nuBuilder, Shane. Is there an option I can throw into the config.php to alter the login that I am not seeing? IS there a way to do this without extensively going through the software?

As for a hosting change, the account name is based on my actual domain name. I have access to 4 other providers currently that use this method with CPanel. So nuBuilder wouldn't work there as well. I have shopped hosts for years to arrive where I am now. Until now, I haven't had an issue with them. In fact, they answer any and all questions very quickly and are all around probably the best hosting provider I could find for the money. If there was a way to get this thing working there, they would do it. VPS hosting through cpanel requires that they utilize the domain name as part of the login for accounts. What I do find odd is that you guys want everyone using your admin account name, and don't seem to have an option to easily change it. Suggesting that "Maybe I should find a better host" is not what I would call great support of your product. Maybe you should find a better way to allow users to change the admin account login name? Call it a security enhancement at the least.

Thanks for reading...

-Overt.

[shane]

You do not clearly understand.

Eg.
Lets assume that yuour cPanel account name is overtkill

config.php:

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<?php

 $DBSiteGlobeadminPasswordOnly = true;
 $DBGlobeadminPassword             = 'reallysecret123'; // this is the globeadmin password, as you can see it is not a mysql user account

 $DBHost     = 'localhost';
 $DBName     = 'overtkill_sample';
 $DBUserID   = 'overtkill_sample_username';
 $DBPassWord = 'secret123';

?>

As you can see this will work for all cPanel providers, I did not say that you need to change hosting providers!

Also we apologise that our free support is not good enough for you!

[admin]

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