Title: Keymaster string lost permissions
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Keymaster string lost permissions

 *  Resolved [whispertrail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whispertrail/)
 * (@whispertrail)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keymaster-string-lost-permissions/)
 * My keymaster account can no longer access the admin dashboard. If I change my
   account to Administrator through phpMyAdmin the account will work.
 * What would cause this? and How can I fix it?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keymaster-string-lost-permissions/#post-802559)
 * Create a new admin user. Delete the keymaster account and let it assign all the
   keymaster posts to the new admin user. Then delete and re-add the keymaster user.
   Then delete the new admin user account and let it assign the posts back to the
   new keymaster user.
 *  Thread Starter [whispertrail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whispertrail/)
 * (@whispertrail)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keymaster-string-lost-permissions/#post-802627)
 * thanks for the suggestion. I added a new admin account through phpMyAdmin. After
   logging in with the new admin account I discovered that my old account had lost
   keymaster status in WP. It was strange because the appropriate key seemed to 
   still exist in the database.
 * Anyways that’s how I fixed it. Thanks for the ehlp though.

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## Tags

 * [permission](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permission/)
 * [problem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/problem/)

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 * Last reply from: [whispertrail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whispertrail/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keymaster-string-lost-permissions/#post-802627)
 * Status: resolved

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