Cannot change site Owner - forgotten password & email invalid

Using Ghost
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The ‘Owner’ of our site created it some years ago and is no longer involved in its maintenance. He has forgotten his password and the email address he used is no longer valid.

Consequently, the Ghost recommendation for the owner to login and change the permissions/ownership is not possible.

There are two other Administrators who now maintain the site.

In this circumstance, is there any other way the Owner can be changed?

Thanks

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If you’re self hosting, you could make changes to the database.

If you’re in managed hosting, you’ll need to contact whoever your host is.

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Thanks for your reply.

We are self hosting with Digital Ocean, but, unfortunately I do not know how or what to change in the database?

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If I’m remembering correctly, there’s a users table. It’d probably be easiest to change the owner’s email address to one you control, then run a password reset on it.

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Thanks Cathy.

There is indeed a ‘users’ table.

After a crash course in mysql and setting up the mail config in ghost, I managed to do exactly what you suggested :sweat_smile:

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