I have an install of DNN 4.4.1.  It is working fine, but I just noticed that since I created each portal with the SAME NAME for the  administrator  for all protals at time of creation, I only have a SINGLE ADMIN account plus the HOST accoint listed in the table USERS of this DNN install database. I have not added any other users to the portals so  I would have expected there to be 8 ADMIN USERS plus 1 HOST SUPER USER. But it looks like all the portals are sharing the Admin accont since I created it with the same name and password for all portals?........

Question: Why does the single Admin account work on all the portals, doesnt each portal have its own admin account even and ID for EACH the Admin account/portal?  I would expect 8 Admin acounts (even if they are all called "CoolAdmin" or whatever) plus the HOST account to be listed in the USERS table in the database since I have 8 portals. I would expect the CoolAdmin UserID in the USERS table to be different for each "CooAdmin" in the username column.

I noticed this when I created the last portal(lets call it portal8 for reference), and I looked at  the Terms Of Use  statement in ALL the OTHER portals and noticed that it reflected the EMAIL ADDRESS I input for the last portal (Potal8) at time of creating, lets call it info @ portal8.com.

(all porals Terms Of Use  SERVICE CONTACT :  (email address here)  were the SAME because they all truely use the same admin acount, this is what caused me to look at the Users table.

example. If i browse to poral1, portal2, portal3 Terms Of Use  and look at the section for SERVICE CONTACT :  THE EAMIL is for says....  info @ portal8.com   because that is whe the email address of the only Admin account in the Users table is...

Is this a total no no? to create the portals with the same admin acount name? if so? why isnt there PK or unque index on that column and error out at time of parent portal creation?

hope this makes sense. strange, it works, i can use the coolAdmin to log into all the portals fine, but the user profile is refected for this single coolAdmin account in all portals since its the single admin acount for all portals I created.

comments please... why does this happen, should i change it? how to change it... ????

 

As mentioned above the root issue is due to having one account.  This explains also why the most recently updated e-mail address is used.

You can create the individual logins but you MUST be 100% sure that you use a different name for each.  Also, when you are going to remove the inital one you created you will want to be careful, I have a feeling that deleting the acocunt could be a bit tricky as it might end up removing it from multiple portals...

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-Mitchel Sellers
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Yes, I understand that it is a bit "unusual" the way it works, but there are good reasons for it when it comes to sharing logins between porals.

If you go to change to a different admin I recommend the following.

For each portal complete the following.

1.  Login as host and create a new admin account (With a unique name)

2.  Mark that account as the admin under Site Settings

3.  MANUALLY delete the record in UserPortals that references the site's portal id and the admin userid

This will unassociate the account to the portal, but will do the removal safely.... I don't know for sure that it would break using other methods, but it isn't worth the risk!

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-Mitchel Sellers
Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, DNN MVP
CEO/Director of Development - IowaComputerGurus Inc.


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