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#26609 Changing your Super Administrator ID - feature

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Latest post by on Monday, 26 December 2016 17:17 CST

Friday, 25 November 2016 10:41 CST

joomleb
Hi Akeeba Team,

as far as I understand the "Changing your Super Administrator ID" feature in Admin Tools have been deleted after Joomla 3.1 release, am I right ?

Now, I have an old joomla 3.x file with standard Super Admin ID and I want change his ID (the Super Admin has yet a lot of activity on the site, like Forum etc. and I don't want loose all his work)

Please, Can you suggest me the right way on doing it manually ?

Saturday, 26 November 2016 11:36 CST

nicholas
Changing the ID was a workaround for Joomla! 1.0, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7. Randomized IDs have been a thing since Joomla! 2.5. Moreover, changing the ID would cause existing items (e.g. articles) to be "orphaned", causing other subtle issues. That's why it was removed.

The recommended way to get rid of old-style Super Users with an ID of 62 / 42 is to create a new Super User account. Log in to your site using the new account. Now edit the old account and change its group assignments to contain only the Guest group (effectively denying login for that user). After saving that change you can do anything else you want, e.g. change the username and block the user.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 26 December 2016 17:17 CST

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Edited by on 2016-12-26 17:17 CST

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