No admin account on my selfhosted instance

[elythh]

Hello, I've been selfhosting Outline for about a year now and I wanted to move my current instance to a new one. I realized that I wasn't able to export all my collections because my current and only account doesn't have admin rights. On the new one, I followed the exact same installation process and my account is Admin.

How can I promote my current user to admin ? From the API I need to already be one to promote a user.

Thank you for your help !

EDIT: I'm using Slack for authentication and both instance are using the same Slack account

[tommoor]

You would need to change the user.isAdmin column in the database directly in this scenario

[elythh]

Thank you for the quick answer. Could you help me change it ? My database is running in a docker container. I am able to access it using docker exec -tiu postgres outline-postgres psql but from that point I'm not familiar with the commands to edit the right table.

EDIT: I located the table but I can't find how to edit the False value to True.
EDIT2: Nevermind, I had to quote "isAdmin" when using UPDATE. Thank you for the help !

[imedia3]

You might post your final steps with found solution, as you expected to receive from others

[elythh]

I felt like tommor's response and mine were enough but I will try to explain each step here.

• If you are running docker, log into your postgre container ( the commands is in my above comment)
• Find the user table
• Update the right user changing isAdmin column from False to True

I don't have the excact postgre syntax in head unfortunately

[techguydave]

Here's the commands I used:

# Log in to the Docker container
docker exec -it outline-postgres-1 psql -U postgres

# Check if the desired user is an admin ("f" = false, "t" = true)
SELECT id,username,"isAdmin" FROM users WHERE username = 'username_goes_here';

# Update the desired user's "isAdmin" flag to TRUE
UPDATE users SET "isAdmin" = TRUE WHERE username = 'username_goes_here';

# Verify the update was made (should now show "t")
SELECT id,username,"isAdmin" FROM users WHERE username = 'username_goes_here';

That user should now have admin. It feels weird that this is the official way to set the initial admin, hopefully this process will be improved in the future without having to manually edit the database. For instance, in Gitea the first user to register is an admin. This seems fair since I would hope whomever is setting up an instance would also be trusted to have admin powers.

[uirmaksever]

Just wanted to note that this answer is not valid anymore since structure of users table has changed, probably due to later updates. there is no isAdmin column anymore but there is a "role" column, which initially had the value of "member" My solution was changing the "role" column in users table from "member" to "admin", for the user to be converted to admin. After that, I was able to see Workspace admin options on UI.