I am working on getting a copy of a WordPress MU network up and running on my local machine for development purposes (using WordPress 3.2.1 at the moment). I need access to the network administration options.

In the usermeta table, I changed my user-level to 10 and capabilities to a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}

In the sitemeta table, I added myself to the serialized array of users in the site_admins option.

While this did get me access to the generic wp-admin page, I still do not have access to any of the network admin options (such as automatic upgrade for WP, plugins, or themes, etc).

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So, it turns out that those three changes were all that were needed. It also turns out that if any of the serialized arrays are modified incorrectly (which is easy to do when modifying them by hand), the system will just assume you are not a network administrator.

Correcting the serialized array for the site_admins option fixed the problem.

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