The following procedure will allow the board administrator to regain access to the administration program in the case of a lost administration password, failing database link, and so on. FTP access to the server is required to complete this procedure.
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<h3>Your emergency password is: $general->{plainpass}</h3>
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<p>Right-click the following link and choose "Save Target As..." to save the file to your disk. Save it in a location where you can easily find it later. Right-click to download: <a href="$DCONF->{script_url}/discus.$DCONF->{cgi_extension}?pg=emergency&encpw=<#escape "$general->{password}"#>"><b>emergency.txt</b></a> (< 1 kB). Be sure that the file name is "emergency.txt" -- change it if needed.</p>
<li><p>Open your FTP client and initiate a connection to the server where your discussion board is running.</p>
<li><p>On the remote side, select the "data" subdirectory of your Discus administration directory (the administration directory name is not shown here for your security). The administration directory contains the discus.conf file and typically has a name starting with "discus_admin_..."</p>
<li><p>Upload the 'emergency.txt' file from step 1 to the "data" directory of your board. You can use either ASCII or binary mode. Setting permissions is generally unimportant (if you are concerned, set permissions to 0755 rwxr-xr-x). Close your FTP connection.</p>
<li><p>Log in to <a href="$DCONF->{script_url}/discus.$DCONF->{cgi_extension}?pg=admin">administration</a> as the board administrator, using your emergency password. Once you're logged in, here are some steps you might want to accomplish:</p>
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<li><p>Go to <b>Profile Manager</b> and change your password, if you used this procedure to recovery from a lost administration password. (Your emergency password will be valid for only one hour.)</p>
<li><p>Go to <b>Database Manager</b> and fix your connection parameters, if you used this procedure to fix parameters due to a change in database connectivity.</p>
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<p><b>Important: Your emergency password expires 1 hour after you upload the emergency.txt file. If you require more time in emergency mode, repeat steps 2-5 from above.</b></p>
