Disabled login, now cant login

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Disabled login, now can’t login

JamesRamm accidentally disabled all login options in their Discourse admin settings and is now unable to log in. The community has offered a solution:

To restore login functionality, admins can SSH into their server and run the following commands:

cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rails c
SiteSetting.enable_local_logins = true

(elberet and zogstrip)

Alternatively, admins can use the admin-login system by visiting https://forum.example.com/u/admin-login (jomaxro).

1

So, I foolishly disabled all the login options in the admin settings of my discourse installation.
Then I logged out.
Now I can’t log in. When I click ‘login’, the login box is completely empty.

Silly I know, but is there any way to restore?

2

You’ll have to SSH into your server, cd /var/discourse, ./launcher enter app and then rails c to changes the values of some of the SiteSettings :wink:

3

If you have access to the server, sure:

/var/discourse/launcher enter app
rails c
SiteSetting.enable_local_logins = true
4

So, about those presence features… perhaps Discourse also needs an “@user is composing a reply” indicator? :laughing:

5

I would still continue writing my reply :wink:

11

In addition to modifying site settings via the console as suggested above, admins can also get in through the admin-login system. https://forum.example.com/u/admin-login