AFAIR there are multiple rules for superusers, including the isSuperuser flag as well as assignment to portal -1

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One of the first recommendations is to create a new super user and kill the host. Okay. How?

How can we assign user permissions from within DNN?

I create a user and I have no indicator of the user's level.

Are they admin, Super, nothing?

How can I take a user and tell DNN (from within DNN) that the user is a super user.

Thank you for the help.

This is an old issue, but I can't find the solution, especially not after the latest upgrades since this thread only mentions database-hacking. I'm currently using DotNetNuke 5.5.0 (the latest version)

So DOES anyone know the answer to this question:
How do you upgrade a user to a super-user?

I have the problem with having a LOT of portals to administer, and somewhere on one of these portals, I've created a user who should not have been a user but a super-user. I was able to find the user and delete it after a bit of trouble of reassigning a new administrator account, but even after the user is deleted, it's still not removed from the database and I can't create a new superuser with that username:

Add New User A User Already Exists For the Username Specified. Please Register Again Using A Different Username.

Now the user is gone from all portal interfaces, but still exists somewhere in the database which is why I might need a new database-hack to completely remove or change the user since DotNetNuke fails to do so.

All this could be avoided if there was some simple way to upgrade a user to superuser.. but is this a "future feature" or does it actually exist somewhere in DotNetNuke yet to be discovered? :)