Fantastic - worked a treat! Can I help by raising an Issue with the details of the original problem?
Thanks. On Mar 5, 11:00 am, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > It tried to authenticate against AD, but given that it didn't find it, it > should have fallen back to the built-in list of users in the database. The > fact that it didn't is concerning, but we can look into it once we get your > system back up and running. > > That method for creating a super user should work for making a new admin > user, but we can also set your user to have superuser status again. Do the > following: > > $ rb-site manage /path/to/your/site shell > >>> from django.contrib.auth.models import User > >>> u = User.objects.get(username="master") > >>> u.is_superuser = True > >>> u.is_staff = True > >>> u.save() > > That should reset it and give you access to the admin UI again. > > Christian > > -- > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > Review Board -http://www.reviewboard.org > VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:51 AM, James McDougall > <jamesmcdoug...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Christian, > > > When we switched over to AD, the end-user accounts did exist on AD but > > when they logged in for the first time against AD it appeared that > > their account was reset, with existing reviews lost. That was not an > > issue at the time. > > > The Master account (my admin ID) did continue to work until this > > morning but without there being an equivalent AD account. (Contrary > > to my original post, I'm thinking that I must have restarted the > > server since the switchover without losing Admin rights.) > > > When I could not login this morning, the Apache error_log showed the > > following - no references to any other Apache logs. > > error_log:WARNING:root:Active Directory: Failed login for user master > > > I then added master to our AD and that error no longer appears, but I > > can only log in as a normal user now. > > > Are there other logs I should be running with in general? If so then > > how do I enable them please? > > > UPDATE - I've just found the following in the Admin Guide but not > > tried it. Is this what I need? > > > Creating a Super User¶ > > > It is possible to create a new super user account without using the > > website. This can be important if the main super user account is for > > whatever reason disabled or if the login information is lost. > > To create a new super user account, run: > > $ rb-site manage /path/to/site createsuperuser > > > This will prompt for the username and password of the account. You > > must specify a user that doesn’t already exist in the database. Once > > this is finished, you should be able to log in under the new account > > and fix any problems you have. > > > On Mar 5, 10:36 am, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote: > > > Hi James, > > > > Was the username you used also an account on the Active Directory server? > > > > Does anything appear in the log files? (Assuming logging was turned on > > > before this happened). > > > > Christian > > > > -- > > > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > > > Review Board -http://www.reviewboard.org > > > VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com > > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:30 AM, James McDougall < > > jamesmcdoug...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Bottom line is that I no longer appear to have an administrative > > > > account and I am looking for a way to get myself back in again. > > > > > Sequence that got me to this was as follows. > > > > - I set up accounts using the local user account system - end-user > > > > accounts, a master admin account and a Submit-As account for post > > > > review > > > > - I then switched over to use Active Directory thinking the admin > > > > account would be preserved. > > > > - I could still use the admin account _UNTIL_ I restarted the httpd > > > > server. > > > > > Since then, having created the equivalent AD account, I have only been > > > > able to login as a normal user. > > > > > Is there any way of patching admin privileges in through MySQL or am I > > > > hosed? > > > > > Thanks for any help! > > > > > James > > > > > -- > > > > Want to help the Review Board project? 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