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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Solid Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection] ERROR – "A user with id 1 still exists."

Thread Starter wadeishere
(@wadeishere)

11 years, 10 months ago

Hi g-woods.

I found a solution. Go to the users section in your dashboard. Create a new admin user. The new admin will not have an ID of 1. Then erase the old admin user. That’s pretty much it.

*Note that when you delete the old admin, you will erase all content generated from that admin. So you will want to attribute that content to the new admin.

See if that works for you and let me know.

Wade

Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Solid Security – Password, Two Factor Authentication, and Brute Force Protection] ERROR – "A user with id 1 still exists."

Thread Starter wadeishere
(@wadeishere)

11 years, 10 months ago

Interesting update.

I backed up my database, then accessed it via phpMyAdmin in cPanel and went to the users table. I clicked the edit button (the pencil icon) next to my user and manually changed the user ID number.

However, after manually changing my user ID number, I was no longer allowed to access my admin dashboard.

Then, I went back in the database, and changed the user ID back to 1.

Everything went back to normal, and I was able to access my dashboard again.

So, it appears user ID number cannot be changed without issues, either with this plugin or manually.

Agree/disagree?

Still a security threat/not something to worry about?

Cheers
Wade

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