Hello! I am new to this! How do I login to the ‘system’ account?

I just want to change some of the settings.

@downey Also is there a way to create an account manually without an email?

[image] tristenturner101: I just want to change some of the settings. Almost any setting can be changed by your own account through the web interface, as long as your account has ‘admin’ rights. [image] tristenturner101: is there a way to create an account manually without an email? AFAIK, they only way to do so, is you’d need to go through the account creation process and use any email address. Again as an admin account for the site, you can go pull up the user in the admin tools and manually override their email verification (for example in the case you used a fake email address). Others may know more… :slight_smile:

You can’t login as system. [image] tristenturner101: change some of the settings Admins do that not system.

You can’t. You really need to get mail working or you won’t have a forum. This might help you, though: Create an admin account from the console.

@pfaffman Is there a way to stage a user? Bit confused by what that means/

As others have replied here, it is not possible to login as the system user. The system user is a special account that is automatically created by Discourse. It is used for performing some automated functions on the site. It is also used as the API user if you make API requests with the All Users API key. If the site that you are asking about is on our hosting, you do not have access to the Rails console, so the guide for creating accounts from the Rails console will not apply to you. [image] tristenturner101: Is there a way to stage a user? Have a look at this topic What is a staged user? If you can give us specific details about what you are trying to accomplish, we will try to help.

I have a case that may justify the need to login as “system” So…I made a mistake and moved a category into another category (creating a sub-category). I saved the sub-category without adding any users in the permissions…so even as an admin I cant access it. When I try, I get the error Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.. I was hoping I could login as system to re-add permissions to admins can access that sub-category. UPDATE I was able to use /safe-mode to fix the issue :slight_smile:

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downey (Michael Downey) January 23, 2020, 10:48pm 2

I don’t think that’s possible. What are you trying to accomplish after you log in as system? There might be an alternative method.

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