Emergency access

If you’re running your own onCourse server and run into issues where you no longer have access, you can create a .txt file to put into the server folder.

The file should be called createAdminUsers.txt and use the following format:

John,Doe,johndoe@mail.com
Jane,Doe,<janedoe@mail.com>
John Smith johnsmith@mail.com
Jane Smith <janesmith@mail.com>

If the user is a new user, then that user will be created and an email will be sent to them requesting that they set their password.

If you add to this file a user that already exists, when the file is read, that user’s password is automatically reset and they will be sent a reset password email allowing them to set a new one.