Difference: "Awaiting Activation" group and "Registered"

[fdab]

Hi!

What is the difference between user who belongs to "Awaiting Activation" group and "Registered"? Only this group? Or maybe something else (except group change) happens during user's activation? Thus, if I change (via plugin/or directly in DB) manually user's group "Awaiting Activation" -> "Registered" everything will be fine.

Cheers!

[Destroy666]

Take a look at awaitingactivation table. Or simply just at the activation process: https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/featur....php#L1294

[Paradigm]

As far as I know when 'activating' a user it simply changes the usergroup value for the UID. If you wanted to write a plugin for this you would need to update the value in the usergroup column to the registered GID.

[Destroy666]

If you opened the link above, you'd see it's not enough and you may end up with some bugs (e.g. inability to change Email) if that's the only thing you do.