# Disable authentication

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-authentication/2887>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 24, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-authentication/2887 "2016-05-24T08:53:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@alexR](https://forums.suse.com/u/alexR)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-authentication/2887/1 "2016-05-24T08:53:10Z")

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Hello,

Until recently we were working with github authentication, and decided to try out LDAP on a different cluster, the problem is that now we have access but we are all with set with “User” privileges and no one is admin. What is the proper way to go about this? Can we disable auth to gain access again?

Best regards,

Alejandro

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**Author:** ![alexR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@alexR](https://forums.suse.com/u/alexR)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-authentication/2887/2 "2016-05-24T09:02:46Z")

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Ok, so I managed to change my user to “admin” by modifying the accounts table in MySQL.

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**Author:** ![andyshinn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/andyshinn/32/442_2.png) [@andyshinn](https://forums.suse.com/u/andyshinn)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-authentication/2887/3 "2016-05-24T18:08:41Z")

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I asked a similar question recently which may be of help. There are some API endpoints which should allow you to associate your admins and users to the new authentication type. See [Migrating from local authentication to Active Directory?](http://forums.suse.com/t/migrating-from-local-authentication-to-active-directory/2826/2).

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disable-authentication/2887/4 "2016-05-24T22:16:21Z")

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Did you use the same setup to switch between authentication types?

We don’t support the ability to switch between authentication types as outlined in the comments in this issue. In general, we haven’t gone through that specific use case.

[https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/2013](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/2013)