lost admin password

[Giorgio Chiodi]

Ok, the inevitable happened.
While installing the email plugin I've been logged out and now I can't remember the password and I realised the email plugin (smtp) is not working (it should send me a reset link)

@julian @baris

[baris]

You can just create another account and give it admin privileges from redis-cli. Then you can change the password of your original account with this new admin.

First create a user as normal. Note down their username.

Now go into redis-cli and find the gid of the admin group.

hget group:gid administrators (1)

Then get the uid of the new user

hget username:uid <username> (2)

Now add the uid of the user name to the admin group.

sadd gid:<replace with value from step 1>:members <replace with value from step 2>

Let me know if that helps. Not sure why the email plugin is not working.

[Giorgio Chiodi]

hget group:gid administrators

@baris What if I even managed to lock new member registration ?

[baris]

hset config allowRegistration 1 should enable it back.

[Giorgio Chiodi]

@baris it replies with (integer) 0

[baris]

That's fine can you get to the register form after running that?

[Giorgio Chiodi]

@baris what's the url?

[baris]

Err http://yournodebb.com/register ?

[Giorgio Chiodi]

@baris OK, I needed to restart nodebb - was getting a 403 on that

[Giorgio Chiodi]

sadd gid:<replace with value from step 1>:members <replace with value from step 2>

@baris OK, I'm in. now about that smtp email plugin...

[baris]

Email plugins are @julian 's area of expertise so I am going to let him handle that

[Giorgio Chiodi]

@baris @julian Anyway, the mailgun plugin works (i previously disabled it) - local email plugin doesn't

[colornote]

@baris said:

hget group:gid administrators

hi,when I run

hget group:gid administrators
it's return nil

why?

[julian]

Hello @colornote, sorry to hear you got locked out!

The instructions have changed as the schema has changed.

Now:

1. First create a user as normal. Note down their username.
2. Get the uid of the new user: hget username:uid <username>
3. sadd group:administrators:members <replace with value from step 2>

[colornote]

@julian Thank you!
I use another way which you offer, and reset the admin's password successfully.

To reset the password even if no email is installed:

1. Go to /reset and key in your email. It won't send out the password reset email, but a key will be generated. This key expires after 2 hours.
2. redis-cli to enter the redis console. If redis is installed on a different port, host, or socket, use -p, -h, and -s respectively
3. hgetall reset:uid, and locate the reset id corresponding to your uid
4. Go to /reset/{reset-uid}

[Jenkler]

I use mongodb, here is the solution: // I just wanted to share

// Show collections
show collections
// Find the userid you want to add to the
db.objects.find( { "_key" : "username:uid" } )
// Find members id in administrators group
db.objects.find( { "_key" : "group:administrators:members" } )
// To update, 3 was my userid
db.objects.update( { "_id" : ObjectId("54022b7f60757d4944a05931") }, { "_key" : "group:administrators:members", "members" : [ "1", "2", "3" ] }, { upsert: true }

More info here
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/mongo-shell/

[Alexander Anderson]

Slight Update To Jenkler's approach, not sure in which version this changed* but:
modify the key "value" with the array of users you want to give admin permissions to
"value" : [ "1", "2" ]

as opposed to
"members" : ["1","2"]

Note: the ObjectId() used in the first parameter of the update query is the id of the object found from the find query { "_key" : "group:administrators:members" }
If you have rockmongo you may also just edit the result that you find from { "_key" : "group:administrators:members" }

[mkarmocha]

@Jenkler Hey thanks you very much this worked like a charm for me..great help!!

[Jenkler]

Np, Its nice to give back to the community

[yli-sazze]

@Alexander-Anderson your are right, updates:

show collections
db.objects.find( { "_key" : "username:uid" } )
db.objects.find( { "_key" : "group:administrators:members" } )
db.objects.update( { "_id" : ObjectId("54022b7f60757d4944a05931") }, { "_key" : "group:administrators:members", "value" : [ "1", "2", "3" ] }, { upsert: true })