Lost Admin Account

[Fiddler 6]

Hi

When I tried to connect to my server (from my pc) I was presented with an request to configure the server despite it having run in it's current configuration for years. So I created what I thought would be my account and instead it has renamed a user to have the same name as the admin account.

The result is now that my only admin account is "lost" or at least not available at login (even using manual login).

How do I regain admin access to my Emby server?

[Q-Droid 989]

Are none of your other accounts admin users? 

[Fiddler 6]

No I only have the one admin account.

It appears there is a bug in the SetUpWizard in that it will allow you to change the name of an existing use to that of another existing user which hides the second one - in my case my admin user.

However there is a simple fix. Set IsStartupWizardCompleted is system.xml to false and restart the server.

Next time you connect to the server from a browser the setup wizard runs and a couple of steps in it asks you to set up a user. In my case I could then rename the first account back to the correct name and make my admin user accessible again.