# Locked myself out of my superuser role by accident, how do I get access back?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [May 4, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977 "2022-05-04T21:58:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@pritster5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pritster5)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977/1 "2022-05-04T21:58:16Z")
Being the idiot I am, I had a use case where I needed to make two accounts for myself, one with admin access and one with regular access.
Instead of making the new admin account BEFORE I demoted my current account to the regular level, I demoted my account (changed my role from superuser to another, less privileged role) first.
This obviously caused me to lose access to the User controls as I was no longer an admin.
How can I get access back?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977/2 "2022-05-04T22:47:10Z")
Does [Setting passwords for native and built-in users | Elasticsearch Guide [8.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.2/change-passwords-native-users.html) help?
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### Author:  [@pritster5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pritster5)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977/3 "2022-05-05T17:34:06Z")
I'll give it a try, although I should mention I'm on ELK 7.5 (since I'm using an old plugin that relies on that).
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### Author:  [@pritster5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pritster5)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977/4 "2022-05-05T18:44:32Z")
Actually I just realized that doesn't help with my issue because the issue is not logging in to Kibana, but that my user doesn't have enough permissions in it's role.
I need to be able to attach the superuser role to my user again.
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### Author:  [@Yang\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yang_Wang)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977/5 "2022-05-06T00:36:52Z")
You can create a superuser in the file realm and then use this user to grant more privileges to your other user. Follow this [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/file-realm.html) to configure a file realm user. Depending on your existing configuration, you may need restart the Elasticsearch node.
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### Author:  [@pritster5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pritster5)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977/6 "2022-05-06T22:50:20Z")
Worked perfectly, thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/locked-myself-out-of-my-superuser-role-by-accident-how-do-i-get-access-back/303977/7 "2022-06-03T22:50:48Z")
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