Add Magento Admin Account Using MySQL Script
Note: this script works on Magento CE 1.3.2.4 and 1.4.0.* but does not work in the Magento Enterprise Edition
As a Magento development company, we have a number of designers, developers, and project managers that need admin access to the sites that we build. As opposed to using one global admin account for our entire team, we believe it to be a much better practice to assign individual admin accounts to each team member who is going to be working on a project.
One of our developers, Matt Johnson, has developed a script to allow us to easily add an admin user to a Magento installation. Each member on our team that needs Magento admin access has a sql file that adds their admin account to Magento. When we start a new project, we run the sql script for the members of our team that are going to need access to the server. I hope you’ll find this snippet useful.
/* This is an example SQL script. You should replace all the UPPERCASED variables. The <USERNAME> variable can only be alphanumeric characters, and probably underscores (haven't tested) You can either generate a password hash using the PHP code below, or you can grab a password hash from the admin_user table from an existing Magento install for which you know the admin password. */ /* Use the following PHP script to generate a salted password hash. You can also use a straight md5 hash, but it's much more easily brute-forced <?php $password = 'PASSWORD'; $salt = 'GF'; echo $hash = md5($salt.$password).':'.$salt; ?> */ insert into admin_user select (select max(user_id) + 1 from admin_user) user_id, 'FIRST NAME' first_name, 'LAST NAME' last_name, 'EMAIL' email, 'USERNAME' username, 'HASH EXAMPLE: 178f29c8e4c6c801db90cd171e3b2b53:in' password, /* You can replace this value with an md5 hash */ now() created, NULL modified, NULL logdate, 0 lognum, 0 reload_acl_flag, 1 is_active, (select max(extra) from admin_user where extra is not null) extra; insert into admin_role select (select max(role_id) + 1 from admin_role) role_id, (select role_id from admin_role where role_name = 'Administrators') parent_id, 2 tree_level, 0 sort_order, 'U' role_type, (select user_id from admin_user where username = 'USERNAME') user_id, 'USERNAME' role_name |
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March 2nd, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Thank you for sharing. I’ve linked this script in a related thread on the magento forums. Just a heads up.
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:47 pm
@Too Many Bits – Thanks!
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:48 pm
For reference’s sake, removing the such as ” to resemble ‘John’ is what worked for me. Otherwise the data stored will include , oops!
Also I have a ‘ in my last name, this is easily escaped with a \ before the ‘ like O\’Connor.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Sorry for the repeat. forgot to escape my code.
For reference's sake, removing the such as '' to resemble 'John' is what worked for me. Otherwise the data stored will include , oops!
Also I have a ' in my last name, this is easily escaped with a \ before the ' like O\'Connor.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Ok last time. You need to remove the angle brackets in order to store your data properly in the database.
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:42 pm
@Too Many Bits – angled brackets are the standard for indicating that data needs to be replaced, but I understand how that could be confusing. I’ve removed the angled brackets from the example code. Thanks!
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Hi all,
Does this script actually create admin accounts and these admins can only access their stores to list items and other features specific to their stores?
Regards
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:00 am
@Semulka – This script creates admin accounts that have access to all parts of Magento. If you wanted to give them access to only certain parts of Magento, you’d need to go into Magento and create a separate role, and then update the script to reference the name of that role. Right now, it’s referencing “Administrators”.
May 5th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Thanks a lot for this snippet of code !