[development] Force admin login

[larry at garfieldtech.com]

You can always edit the database directly.

It sounds like a cookie problem, though.  Try setting the cookie domain 
explicitly in your settings.php file to just example.com (not 
www.example.com, or whatever).

Also, check to make sure that uid 0 is still intact in the database. 
That's another common source of weirdness, in my experience.

--Larry Garfield

Tomáš Fülöpp (vacilando.org) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a backdoor way to force admin login if everything fails? 
> Something like the way $update_free_access is changed to TRUE to allow 
> running update.php....?
> 
> A client got locked out of D6.15 completely, including admin. Login 
> seems to work (I see admin only links on logon), cookies are set, but 
> only on the initial page.... any subsequent click is treated as done by 
> an anonymous user (checked the watchdog this way). I've cleared all 
> browser caches, Drupal caches via the db, also the Drupal sessions 
> table, checked the cookie domain, the admin user record exists in the 
> user table, etc. in settings.php, deleted and re-uploaded D6.15. Nothing 
> in the php logs. Nothing unusual in watchdog - just access denied by 
> anonymous... Spent an equivalent of a day on this but I know there is a 
> ton of things I can still try - e.g. rebuild access rights. But I do 
> need to log in first, only by myself. So... is there a way to force 
> admin login? Cannot find this info anywhere.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tomáš
>