Admin User Setup

After setting up authentication we can elevate a user that's logged into the system to administrator status:

• Connect to the postgres database by running

  psql postgres

• Check the users table by running

  SELECT
    *
  FROM
    users;

  Which will display a table of users in the database:

  user_id |       uid       |    uin    |   name   | lti_course_instance_id | lti_user_id | lti_context_id | institution_id | deleted_at
  --------+-----------------+-----------+----------+------------------------+-------------+----------------+----------------+------------
        1 | dev@example.com | 000000000 | Dev User |                        |             |                |              1 |

• Add the desired user to the administrators table by running

  INSERT INTO
    administrators (user_id)
  VALUES
    (
      user_id
      from
        users table
    );