Recover the privileges of the admin user of DSpace

Question

Editing permissions of a collection, by mistake we have removed all the privileges of the admin user (currently only belongs to the Anonymous group). Is it possible to recover the privileges of this user? Or create a new administrator user with all permissions over all communities and collections? We use version 3.2 of DSpace.

Thanks!

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '16 at 14:16

You can always create a new administrator with the command line utility bin/dspace create-administrator You could also move your user back to the Administrator group (it's the group with id 1). But you'll probably need another administrator to do that in the first place.

I don't know if there is a way to find all the groups an eperson used to be in.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '16 at 16:03

This is a known issue in DSpace that is being tracked by the following ticket: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2687

You will need to re-create group 1.

dspace=> insert into epersongroup values(1,'Administrator'); 
INSERT 0 1

You can then use the .../bin/dspace create-administrator command to re-add users to that group.

Recover the privileges of the admin user of DSpace

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