I need to be able to make an existing user an SuperUser. I attempted to do this by changing the attribute of the IsSuperUser value from 0 to 1 in the Users table.

This did not work in that when the new superuser is now logged in and I go to the User Accounts admin section I receive the following error:

Error: User Accounts is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities.HtmlUtils.formatEmail(String Email) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Users.UserAccounts.DisplayEmail(String Email) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

SO changing this attribute is not the obvious solution to my problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Frank

I have exactly the same problem - flipping the superuser tag prevents me from logging in. If I log in before flipping the tag, then flip the tag I become a superuser. So I have the same question as Frank - how does one make an existing user in DNN a superuser without having to faff about with the database all the time?

Thanks,
Rob

If anybody has an answer to this thread, I would surely appreciate a response.  I have been struggling with this for a bit.

I am having DNN 3.2.2 auto login based on the windows login, but it doesn't let me log in as Host.  So I thought a nice solution would be is to create a small module to allow a user to turn on or off the 'super user' status for a user that has a special 'super user' role.

Jeff