Superadmin Authentication Stopped Working

[asad-vathare]

Hey,
I had a superadmin user that I created using manage.py after changing the db from sqlite to mysql. Its been 4 or 5 months now since I created the user.

The stuff I did after which these errors popped up were :

1. I deleted some entries in radcheck, radiustoken and openwisp_users_user tables from mysql database directly.
2. I re-ran the playbook to enable subnet_division_rule and upgraded from openwisp 24.11 to 25.10 while running the playbook

So I got access to openwisp dashboard now after creating another superadmin user, and I tried changing password of old superadmin user since I thought it had been changed to old password, it said "Cannot change password to current password" or something along the way. And I am not able to login using that username and password. I checked for case-sensitivity as well

Superadmin error:

[nemesifier]

Without having a look at the DB internals I doubt it's possible to understand what exactly went wrong, but definitely something went wrong along the migration. 1 thing is for sure: the openwisp application does not change the password of admin users.