Unable to switch to "Local users and groups" authentication mode in bamboo
Asked by Isaac Stennett:

I'm currently using crowd for bamboo integration, but would like to create a local bamboo admin as a fail-safe if our crowd server goes down for any reason (it's happened in the past).

However, when I try to switch to "Local users and groups" mode in the "User Repositories" section of bamboo administration, I receive the following error:

"Failed to change the active user repository: At least one administrator required, but none were found. The following administrator groups were searched: \[NRMP_Admins, bamboo-admin\]"

I did some research and it seemed like the answer was to have a local admin user. Unfortunately, I don't believe I have a local admin user. It may have gotten deleted somewhere down the line. Apparently I'm unable to re-create a local admin user without first switching to local mode.

Seems like I'm in a catch-22 type situation. In order to create a local admin, I need to switch to local mode. But in order to switch to local mode, I need to create a local admin. Is there some backend way to solve this problem, or am I out of luck?


Answers:
author: rsperafico
body: Hello Isaac,

I am assuming you have users in NRMP_Admins group. If so, add this group in *Bamboo administration \>\> Security \>\> Global permissions* and grant it Admin privileges.

Once you have added, please reattempt on switching from *Local users and groups*to:

* *Users and groups from JIRA or Crowd*
* *Custom repositories*

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Kind regards,  
Rafael P. Sperafico

comments: author: Isaac Stennett
body: Thanks for the reply Rafael. Currently the NRMP_Admins does have admin global permissions, and Bamboo is already set to "Users and groups from JIRA or Crowd."

What I'm trying to do is create a *local* admin user, which to my understanding involves switching back to "local users and groups" mode before creating a new user. However, when I try to do this I get the error in my original question.

Any advice for this scenario?


author: rsperafico
body: > What I'm trying to do is create a *local* admin user...

You do not have access to Bamboo's Internal Directory when using "Users and groups from JIRA or Crowd." and because of that, you are required to change back to "Local users and groups" as you have mentioned.

If running Bamboo 5.13.0.x or 5.13.1 with MSSQL, you might be hitting this bug <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-17905>

In this case, you should:

1. stop Bamboo
2. backup*\<bamboo-home\>/xml-data/configuration/atlassian-user.xml*
3. edit atlassian-user.xml :

   ```
   &lt;atlassian-user&gt;    &lt;repositories&gt;        &lt;hibernate name="Hibernate Repository" key="hibernateRepository" description="Hibernate Repository" cache="true"/&gt;    &lt;/repositories&gt;&lt;/atlassian-user&gt;
   ```

4. start Bamboo  
   ![information](/html/@4DF2F60CA30FBCA0CD7B960B5D0F871B/images/emoticons/information.png "information") At this moment you will no longer have access to users from Jira/Crowd, so you must authenticate in Bamboo using a user from Bamboo's Internal Directory (*e.g the same user created while installing Bamboo*)
5. create the user (*you must have administrative access*)
6. stop Bamboo
7. restore backed up *atlassian-user.xml*
8. start Bamboo

![information](/html/@4DF2F60CA30FBCA0CD7B960B5D0F871B/images/emoticons/information.png "information") Users from Bamboo's Internal Directory are stored in USERS table in the database. If you do not remember the password, you could update it to "*admin*" using this hash:

```
{PKCS5S2}phbp9mo6wRaS5cuF3bQ3vvX8pdDuqxPmSLVyNMO9hj4uUsSdTrRndFGaBTlAthGu
```

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/restoring-passwords-to-recover-admin-users-289277354.html>

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Kind regards,  
Rafael P. Sperafico


author: Isaac Stennett
body: Rafael,

Sorry for the late response. Appreciate the help. The problem with running the steps you have mentioned are that I do not believe we have a local admin anymore. Is that possible? I looked through the internal directory as well as the database and didn't see one. If so, how would I create a new admin to be able to log in locally?


author: Isaac Stennett
body: Also just to clarify, we're using Bamboo 5.12.2.1 with PostgreSQL.


Tags: bamboo-administration