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How to Change the Administrator Role

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The default administrator role in the Pentaho Server is Admin. If you need to give this privilege level to a different role name, follow these instructions:

Role names are case sensitive, so take special care when typing in the new role name.

  1. Open the /pentaho/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/pentaho.xml file with a text editor.
  2. Find the <acl-voter> element, and replace its <admin-role> property with the new administrator role. For example, as NewAdmin is used in this sample procedure: 
    <admin-role>NewAdmin</admin-role>
  3. Find the <acl-publisher> element, and appropriately replace all instances of Admin in the properties inside of the <default-acls> and <overrides> elements as shown in the following example: 
    <acl-entry role="NewAdmin" acl="ADMIN_ALL" />

  4. Save the file, then open applicationContext-spring-security.xml.

  5. Find the filterInvocationInterceptor bean, and modify its objectDefinitionSource property accordingly. You may need to consult the Spring Security documentation to complete this step: 
    <property name="objectDefinitionSource">
    <value>
        <![CDATA[
        CONVERT_URL_TO_LOWERCASE_BEFORE_COMPARISON
        ...
        \A/admin.*\Z=NewAdmin
        ...
        ]]>
    </value>
</property>
You have successfully changed the administrator role.