Change the HA owner

Configuration
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Good morning everyone,
since I want to expose the HA using a reverse proxy or something, to increase the security, or at least I want to think so, I would like to change the role of my main user from administrator to normal.
Is it possible?

This is my actual situation:

  • “roberto”, is my main user the one I created at first during the installation (administrator and owner)
  • “roberto_admin” is the user I just created just to do changes and it has access only in local.

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I tried to remove the administrator badge to “roberto” but the control is disabled. Also, I can’t remove it, because I think it is the owner.

So, is there a way to move the owner to “roberto_admin” and set “roberto” as normal user?

ps. I don’t know if this is the right section to post this question, in case can some admin move it in the right place?
Thanks

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There is a file you can change “/config/.storage/auth”
This file has settings for each user in it. Find the section with the user account you would like to be an owner.

Simply change the line "is_owner": false,
too "is_owner": true,

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Thanks for the reply,

So I have to stop HA and do these modification …and is it all?

      {
        "id": "long_number_and_string",
        "group_ids": [
          "system-users"   # => was  "system-admin"
        ],
        "is_owner": false, # => was  "is_owner": true,
        "is_active": true,
        "name": "roberto",
        "system_generated": false,
        "local_only": false
      },
      {
        "id": "long_number_and_string",
        "group_ids": [
          "system-admin"
        ],
        "is_owner": true,  # => was "is_owner": false,
        "is_active": true,
        "name": "roberto_admin",
        "system_generated": false,
        "local_only": true
      }
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indeed, that is all

5

Thank you :wink:

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Hi, how do you get to “/config/.storage/auth” file. I tried to look into file editor and it does not appear.

7

Ciao, which “release” are you using (os, docker, etc)?

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Im running Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi 3, with HAOS installed, Version 11.2

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Sorry I don’t have experience with HAos, since I am using docker (and it is easy to access the config files), anyway I think that there is an integration to access the configuration file, I remember a sort of file explorer where you can edit the config from there.

If you can’t find the .storage folder it is because in linux every folder/file that begins with dot is hidden

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You might need to configure the file editor to show hidden folders (. in front of a folder / file hides it).

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Hi crc-error79 & flskefjes, managed to solve by configuring file editor by removing '“.storage”, Thank you both for your time and replying :pray:

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Hi, I’m totally new to HA and I don’t understand how to get to “/config/.storage/auth” file with the file editor.

After installing the file editor and starting it, I can’t see the /config when clicking on the symbol for “browse filesystem”. There is only the folder homeassistant/.

How can I get to /config/.storage?

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Thank you for the quick reply!

I’ve changed the configuration, but there is no change (even after restart of HA).

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Delete storage in this screen ( press the x)

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Thank you very much, now it works!