KevinTheJedi Would it look something like this? I apologize for all of my questions. I'm really trying to learn and understand. Thank you for your patience.
UPDATE ost_staff SET backend = NULL WHERE -insert first and last name- ldap;
Can't Login with AD Credentials to run Updater Script
Everything is good up until the WHERE conditions. You would want WHERE staff_id = your_id where “your_id” is your staff ID.
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KevinTheJedi So it would look like: UPDATE ost_staff SET backend = NULL WHERE staff_id = 1
Would this be the same for the password? UPDATE ost_staff SET passwd = 'PASSWORD' WHERE staff_id = 1 ?
Do you happen to have a site where you describe being able to 'hash' the Bcrypt hashes with 8 round entropy? I tried searching for one but I get a lot of info on how long it would take to crack a password, etc.
Yes and yes however for the password query you would wrap the value in single or double quotes (ie. passwd = 'hashed_password').
I don’t want to post a link as I don’t want to advertise 3rd party sites on here. It’s very simple though; just google “bcrypt hash generator”.
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KevinTheJedi Once I've done those two things, I should be able to log in to the portal using my username and newly created password? Thank you again for your help. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
EDIT: This is what I get when I type in the NULL line:
It doesn't seem to like it.
You are missing the trailing ; as shown in my example and referenced article in my previous reply. Every query has to end with a semi-colon.
Yes, once you run the two queries then you should be good to login.
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KevinTheJedi I ended up going in a different direction and recovered our osTicket instance through a backup VM. Is there a way to create a local user within the osTicket Agent panel versus changing a user through the database?
For example, could I create a local user this way?
Thank you.
Yea you are looking at the exact screen to add an agent. To make admin check the box for admin.
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KevinTheJedi Thank you! I was able to create a 'local' admin user (instead of an 'ldap' admin user) and I double-checked that it said 'local' for that user in the database. Now when I upgrade the system, I should be fine to use the local account to get back in. Thanks for everything!
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KevinTheJedi I'm going to retry our osTicket upgrade today and I just had a follow up question. I have read that I should upgrade the plugins before running the upgrade script, is that correct? Will it wipe out the information so that I have to type it all in again or will the information in those plugins carry over to the new version? I hope that makes sense. Thank you.
Simply replace the existing plugin files on the server with the latest downloads; that’s all you need to do. It will keep configs; this is why you need latest plugins so the upgraders for those plugins can run and make sure the data is converted properly.
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KevinTheJedi Thank you very much. That answered my question.