Locked out of Admin

I was configuring my user permissions when my session ended and now when I try to log into my admin area I get the message"You do not have access to the Administrator section of this site." Can anyone help me???

Hi
Perhaps this article could of some help to you.

docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_recover_or_reset_your_admin_password%3F

@paxx:

If it were a username/password problem, the error message would be accordingly, and different from the one posted here. So, that's not it.

@buyalong:

What exactly in "user permissions" did you change? Your usergroup? Or permission settings in "Global Configuration"? Either one can well lead to you locking yourself out from the backend, indeed.

In any case, if you don't have another Super User or other account with permissions sufficient to access the backend and reverse your changes, you'll have two options:

(1) Restore from a backup.
Seriously, one must assume that you've made a proper, complete and restorable backup of your site before attempting significant changes like the ones you made.

(2) Reverse the changes directly in the database, e.g. with phpMyAdmin.
What exactly this requires depends on what exactly you've changed, obviously.
Note: If you're not familiar with database operations and/or phpMyAdmin or whatever other tool you're using, you're in danger of causing even greater damage, and you should consider hiring an expert to perform the repair.

However, this is related to Joomla (and not CB or its plugins). So, you will likely get limited help here anyway, and might need to seek more help elsewhere, if needed, e.g. in the forums on joomla.org.

Thank you. The restore seems like the way to go.

Password reset likely won't do anything as you probably wiped out your users permissions. Hopefully you've a backup to restore to otherwise you'll need to dig into the database to try and restore your access.

Specifically permissions are stored in the roles column of _assets for each component. The global configuration permissions are stored in root.1 (Root Asset). The default root permissions are as follows.


Note the above is default Joomla 3.x root permissions. It will wipe out root permissions set for any new usergroups. Use only as a last resort if you still can't get in.