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Liza1
Explorer II
October 7, 2025
Question

Unable to Access or Restore Super Admin Privileges on FortiGate

  • October 7, 2025
  • 3 replies
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I have the following problem:
The configuration was exported using a Read-only user account, so Super Admins are not visible, and I cannot log in as a Super Admin.
Since I can’t log in with a Super Admin account, I’m unable to make any configuration changes.

Is there any chance or option to either log in, create a Super Admin, or change this user to a Super Admin?
Or is the only option to reset the device and restore the configuration file?

Please help us with this issue — we can’t log in or make any changes.

 

#FortiGate 

3 replies

Liza1
Liza1Author
Explorer II
October 7, 2025

UP

AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
October 7, 2025

I think your solution is to reset and restore.

AEK
GeorgeZhong
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
October 8, 2025

Hi @Liza1 ,

The only option is to perform factory reset and reload the firmware image and configuration. This is for the security purpose.

 

Please follow below instructions to format and reload the firmware image:

 

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Formatting-and-loading-FortiGate-firmware-image/ta-p/197617

 

regards,

George

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