How to login to Matrix as admin

[LoudLemur]

How do you login to Matrix/Synapse as an admin? Where is the login panel?

1. Install Matrix
2. Install Element
3. Using Element, create an account using your Cloudron credentials
4. Make an existing user an administrator...

This 4th step is the tricky one. The documentation explains how to do it:
Open a terminal and run the following command:

PGPASSWORD=${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD} psql -h ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_HOST} -p ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PORT} -U ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_USERNAME} -d ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_DATABASE} -c "UPDATE users SET admin=1 WHERE name='@user:example.com'"

However, some of this command needs to be edited by the user, I think, and this editing should be mentioned in the documentation.

If you do edit the command to use your own username, for example:

@LoudLemur:exemplary.com

and then run it

PGPASSWORD=${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD} psql -h ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_HOST} -p ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PORT} -U ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_USERNAME} -d ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_DATABASE} -c "UPDATE users SET admin=1 WHERE name='@LoudLemur:exemplary.com'"

You would expect to be able to visit the matrix/synapse page and find a login panel. There isn't one to be seen. Perhaps you are just meant to login to Element as the user you just made an admin, but where do you find the Synapse section?

[Kubernetes]

@LoudLemur You can install a static webapp to a Surfer instance to manage your matrix synapse server. Source -> https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin

[girish]

Per https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2032 and https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11932 the upstream project has no plans to ship an admin UI. I will add a note in the docs about this.

[girish]

I clarified in https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/synapse/#admin that there is no admin UI