[Ferre]

Listen to this, one of my very good friends has absolutely no knowledge of html or websites but does own a site that became actually quite important. he has a phpBB forum on his site as well and now this problem came up:

The dude that was his webmaster, and admin at his forums got fired for interfering too much with the content and abusing the powers he had on my friends boards. Instead of leaving peacefully he took away the owner's admin rights and started to make a mess at his boards and website. Now my friend has called the hosting company on my advice and they have changed all the passwords for the actual ftp and this dude can't do any harm there anymore. I went into his site and, on his request, took out the link to his boards for now but that dude is the only one with admin access and should be removed, (it's the first members account)

What do I need to do to be able to enter the phpBB admin panel again and remove that dude?

Can I take over the admin account? I do have all access we need, ftp and mysql. just don't know how.