PHP-Nuke enables visitors to your site to create their own user account, and add and maintain their own personal details. The user account is required to identify them for posting news stories, making comments, or contributing to discussions in the forums, among other activities. By registering on the site and creating a user account, the visitors are given greater freedom on the site. However, their freedom has limits.
We are about to create a special type of user, the super user. This is a registered user of the site who has almost total freedom on the site and absolute power over it. The super user can access, add, remove, and modify any part of the site, and can configure and control anything on the site. Given the nature of this power, there comes the obvious responsibility of ensuring that the identity of this user is kept a secret.
Anyone obtaining these account details will be able to do almost anything to your site, and that could be worse than it sounds,...