2023-12-10 12:36:32 +02:00
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title: Migrate Misskey root account
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date: 2023-12-10T11:41:08+02:00
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2023-12-10 13:35:43 +02:00
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name: Migrate Misskey root account
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identifier: migrate_misskey_root_account
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2023-12-10 12:36:32 +02:00
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= Migrate Misskey root account
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I recently migrated my single user Fediverse server from
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https://misskey-hub.net[Misskey] to https://joinfirefish.org[Firefish] and
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I encountered an issue that I did not find documented elsewhere, so
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I thought I'd write down the solution I found, in case anyone would
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benefit from it and save some time in the future.
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I decided to migrate to a new domain at the same time, so the easiest way
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was just to create a new server and migrate my account and not fuss about
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migrating the Misskey instance itself.
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Being a single user instance, my account was also the "root" account of
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Misskey. Misskey does not allow migrating the root account, if trying to do
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so, you will just get an error along the lines of "root cannot migrate".
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== Solution
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I took to the database to find out what I can do bypassing the UI, and lo and
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behold, I found an `isRoot` column in the `user` table. I didn't want to end up
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without a root account on my old instance however, so I went to the Misskey
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control panel and created a new account, simply called 'root'.
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Misskey seems to save all of it's known users to the `user` table, not only
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the actual local accounts. To find the local accounts only, you can use
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the following query
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[source]
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----
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include::code/query_users[]
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----
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Now you can simply make your new root account's `isRoot` column `true` and
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your actual user account `false`. After that, the migration will work.
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[source]
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----
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include::code/update_users[]
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----
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You should probably check that you only modified 2 rows before committing the
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transaction.
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I would imagine that this solution should work for the numerous Misskey forks
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around, but I have not tested it so your results may vary.
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If you found this post useful, make sure to share, tweet, toot, bleep and bloop
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this on your social media service of choice. If you have any issues,
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you can also use the comments below if you have any issues with this
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process and I will try to help you out.
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