Accidentally deleted Admin user

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The issue you are facing:
I was trying to link Authentik OpenID using username attribute match option and probably set something incorrectly. I am able to login to nextcloud using authentik openID, but none of the users now have Admin privileges. I have earlier disabled default Admin account and now even that seems to be gone. Effectively my nextcloud install is not having any Admin user. How do I re-instate an admin user plz ?

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

Unable to Login as Admin

The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):

PASTE HERE

Output errors in nextcloud.log in /var/www/ or as admin user in top right menu, filtering for errors. Use a pastebin service if necessary.

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I have never tried this before but here is the referring manual page for adding a new user via commandline

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/occ_command.html#user-commands-label

try putting the new account into “admin”-group and see what comes out of it

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