>>Hi,
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>>within an hour of me letting my user at the beta version of my application they've managed to remove the administrator rights from all users. Short of restoring an backup of the database, is there any way to change a user to add them back into the admin group? I guess I would have to update the tables directly?
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>Always add a backdoor password and a default, hidden, admin account.

Thanks Kevin,

but I agree with Al that a backdoor password is a bad idea. I will add in a hidden user and ensure that it cannot be deleted or edited at the database level.