Hello everyone! I’m trying to make a user an admin, I have tried going to admin/users/ and clicking on the Grant Admin and Grant Moderator buttons. If I go back to my user list, I can see that the user was granted those rights. However, as soon as the user logs in, the access is automatically revok…

Are you using SSO? Or just the standard Discourse login system?

Enable verbose SSO logs in settings. I believe that your SSO payload is sending admin: false and revoking the rights of the user.

Thanks Rafael, I’m checking the logs now. How would I fix this issue assuming that that is indeed what is happening?

[image] Denis_Heraud: How would I fix this issue assuming that that is indeed what is happening? Like Jeff said: [image] Add link to external SSO profile to profile page Support Being a parent (authentication site) entails so many responsibilities,…

Haha, yes I realize that, I’m just not sure how to go about it. :slight_smile: And you were right, the SSO log shows: admin: false moderator: false So the question is, how would I pass on a parameter to a specific user’s SSO payload? I have never done that before.

[image] Denis_Heraud: So the question is, how would I pass on a parameter to a specific user’s SSO payload? I have never done that before. You already do that! If user A comes in, you respond with usera@mail.com for email and when user B comes you respond with userb@othermail.com. Your SSO p…

Did you figure it out @Denis_Heraud ?

@zogstrip Not yet but we may be migrating our database soon so I was waiting for that to happen before I take a stab at it.

Can't make user admin, reverts when logging in

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Falco (Falco) March 15, 2017, 5:57pm 6

Like Jeff said:

You will need to add admin: true for this user SSO payload.

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Can't make user admin, reverts when logging in

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