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[visiblesoul]

If you accidently change your member group and lock yourself out of the IPB Admin CP...

The fix is easy if you have phpMyAdmin. You can just go into the database and change your member group manually.

!!!BACKUP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE MAKING CHANGES!!!

In phpMyAdmin...

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1) Choose your forum database from the dropdown box
2) Click the "ibf_members" table link in the left navigation
3) Click the "Browse" tab
4) Find your own member name (it will probably be #1 if you installed the forums)
5) Click the "Edit" icon or Edit link next to your member name (in the same row)
6) Change the "Value" of the "mgroup" row to "4" which should be Admin.
7) Save (by clicking "Go")

Or you could run a query. This one should work if you installed the forum (which means your ID should be "1").

UPDATE ibf_members SET mgroup = 4 WHERE id = 1

or you could just use your username..

UPDATE ibf_members SET mgroup = 4 WHERE name = 'YourUserName'