Changing a site administrator

Software Support
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Hi, there!
I am new in this forum and have few knowledge about programming.
I needed some help when I used the OCS for the first time and invited one person to be a site administrator. I am an owner of the web where the System was installed and then used for hosting the PSST conferences (the-psst.com). It worked perfectly!
After holding various editions I want to change the Administrator for this conference site. I want to take over the PSST conferences and change the initial Administrator selected at the beginning to myself. How I can do it? Could you help me?
Thank you in advance,
Eugenia

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Hi @eumat,

There are two options, each with a couple of discussions in the forum:

I suspect the first is the best option. Note that the SQL queries in the above link assume MD5 encryption; you’ll likely be using SHA1 encryption. You can check the encryption setting in your config.inc.php to be sure.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi!
How can I create a second Site Administrator? [version: 3.0.0.0.] the table roles doesn´t exist.

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Hi @Evandro_Souza,

Check what the user group ID of your administrators group is by running:

SELECT user_group_id FROM user_groups WHERE context_id=0 AND role_id=1;

It’ll probably give you a 1 back as a result. Then, you can grant that to your user:

INSERT INTO user_user_groups (user_id, user_group_id) VALUES (1234, 1);

…where 1234 is your user ID, and 1 is the user_group_id you got from the first query (probably a 1).

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thank you, @asmecher!

It´s solved.

Regards,
Evandro Souza

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This too worked for me. A++ would admin again. Thanks, @aschemer! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hi @asmecher,

Could I add another Site Administrator, if I haven’t got access to OCS files? I’m only administrator of the conference. I have got conference manager and site administrator roles.

Regards
Tautvydas

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Hi @Tautvydas_Tavoras,

In order to grant another Site Administrator, you’ll need access to your database (e.g. through a tool like phpMyAdmin). This is usually part of a CPanel login on a typical server.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Dredging up this thread, but I’m hitting an error.

mysql> INSERT INTO user_user_groups (user_id, user_group_id) VALUES (ndp, 1); ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'ndp' in 'field list'

ndp is my username, I’m running OJS 3. Any ideas?

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In SQL, string constants must be enclosed in quotes, as VALUES ("ndp", 1) for example. In this particular case, you need to use the numeric identifier for the user, not the username.

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Duh! I’m stupid. Thanks.

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I had to promote an user to admin in order to use the translation plugin, did the SQL to insert its ID on admins user_user_group, but that didn’ work.

Am I missing anything? OJS 3.1.2-1