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So when we first installed EE a few years ago, I had a friend of mine whip up a quick LDAP plugin so that we could log in using our LDAP username and password. Now that I’m attempting to upgrade to 2, I realize that this puts me in a catch-22. Without the plugin, I can’t log in to EE. But without being able to log in, I can’t enable an upgraded plugin that might be written for me. In most systems that would require me to use some sort of root username and password, but I’m not aware of, nor has my googling found, any such user in EE.

So is there a root user? If not, what’s the solution?

Hi, grovberg.

There isn’t a root user per se.

However with EE 2.x, all third party add-ons go in the /system/expressionengine/third_party folder. You’d upload the newer plugin in there.

Does that information help?

Is it an extension perhaps instead of a plugin?

Sorry, I’m using the word plug-in in the more general sense of the word. It is indeed an extension.

Wouldn’t I need to enable the extension in the control panel though, once I uploaded it?

Which version of EE are you upgrading from? That’s going to make a difference to my response.

From 1.6.9 to the latest release of v2 as of a few weeks ago.

Is this the same install you were mentioning in the other thread? The self hosted one?

Yes indeed. Perhaps I should have kept this in that thread. 😊

Hi grovberg,

Try disabling extensions first. Then, if you have database access you can set your member’s group_id in exp_members to 1, which will be SuperAdmin. That assumes you know the password set in EE’s database for that account.

Hi guys. I’ve finally gotten some time to work on this again, so first I want to say thanks for responding so far and that disabling extensions helped.

FWIW, the only way I was able to get in was that we approached the upgrade by cloning the site to a new site, and we discovered that if I logged into the original site, my log in session was still valid on the upgraded site. That allowed me to get in and change the local password. Weird but true. Now I just have to figure out why all the CSS for the control panel appears to be disabled.

EDIT: Figured that out now too. It looks like I actually have a working site now. CRAZY!

Thanks again.

Yay! Glad things are working again.. If anything else comes up, please do let us know in a new thread..