Thread:Project:Support desk/Lost Bureaucrat permission/reply

The cleanest method would be to use PhpMyAdmin to re-add 'bureaucrat' to 'ug_group' and '$1' to 'ug_user' in the 'user_groups' table where '$1' is your 'user_id' from the 'user' table. Alternatively you could use createAndPromote.php from the command line to create a new user with the '--bureaucrat' option.