<![CDATA[How to change the admin user (was: Unable to disable currencies)]]>Hi All,

I am able to enable new currencies in the Options menu. I am logged in as a 'Superadmin' (configured in Cloudron).

Trying to disable another currency I get the error message:
'Error! Please ask mail@example.com to add, remove or edit currencies.'

I haven't enter that example mail address anywhere according to my knowledge.

Did anyone else experience this issue?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/7845/how-to-change-the-admin-user-was-unable-to-disable-currenciesRSS for NodeFri, 16 Oct 2026 02:45:42 GMTSat, 22 Oct 2022 20:08:24 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to change the admin user (was: Unable to disable currencies) on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:41:32 GMT]]>@nottheend thanks for the update! fixed the title as well.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54907https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54907Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:41:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to change the admin user (was: Unable to disable currencies) on Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:54:24 GMT]]>@girish More update on this: I found a discussion how to change the Admin in the DB directly. Seems to be the solution with less pain.

Role = 1 should to do the trick in the user table

https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/discussions/5295

(Maybe the title of this thread is more about "How to change the admin user"🤔)

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54900https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54900Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:54:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to change the admin user (was: Unable to disable currencies) on Sun, 23 Oct 2022 19:42:58 GMT]]>@girish Thank you for the detailed and helpful answer! Indeed, it looks like https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/6150
This is fixed in the version which is installed in my cloudron. It seems that I have deleted the user which I used for the first login in Firefly-III.

So probably a solution would be to manually backup the apps data, reinstall firefly and impirt the data again. But somehow I would need to exclude the user.

But I hope for a simpler solution. Hence I added a comment in the discussion section.

https://github.com/orgs/firefly-iii/discussions/6145#discussioncomment-3945347

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54779https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54779Sun, 23 Oct 2022 19:42:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to change the admin user (was: Unable to disable currencies) on Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:55:10 GMT]]>So, just to be clear(er): The first user is indeed the site admin (was fixed in https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/6150) . If you are trying to login as any other user and add a currency, it probably shows the above message. The message is using the SITE_OWNER variable in the env file.

To add the currency itself, you have to login as the site admin i.e the first user that you logged in as in firefly-iii . Fixing SITE_OWNER only changes the message it shows.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54777https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54777Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:55:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to change the admin user (was: Unable to disable currencies) on Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:33:10 GMT]]>@nottheend Seems like there are a couple of reports upstream about this like https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/4121 and https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/943 .

Can you set the SITE_OWNER variable in /app/data/env to your email address ?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54776https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54776Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:33:10 GMT