How to transfer token to another user

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  • which versions are you using: Sonarqube Developer Edition 2025.1
  • how is SonarQube deployed: zip
  • what are you trying to achieve : A sonarqube admin created all the tokens under his own account instead of the Admin account. I would like to be able to transfer there token to the admin account. As they are linked to CI/CD pipelines (around sixty of them), I would prefer to avoid having to recreate them.

I haven’t found any UI options. However, in the DB, there is the user_tokens table. If I change the user_uuid, will the tokens still be valid?

Thanks for your help
Antoine

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This is an issue we ran into as well. Creating Project analysis tokens still ties them to the user and depends on their status. If you disable the user - the token goes down as well.
As such we have to use the default Admin account to create tokens.
I have not tried the method for directly manipulating the DB entries, though it would be worth a try i guess.

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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

You will not be able to transfer ownership of the existing tokens, and you should not edit the DB directly.

As @georgi.yankov recommends, you should use a technical account to re-issue tokens and gradually replace them in your pipelines.

 
HTH,
Ann

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Hi ganncamp and georgi.yankov, thanks for your feedback.

Ok, so I will revoke my tokens, recreate them on my local admin account and update all pipelines with new values

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