Accidentally deleted "Directory Administrator" user in OSX Server (10.9.1)

I was under Users in the OS X Server and deleted the "Directory Administrator" account that was put there after configuring "Device Management" under Profile Manager. I made a new administor account that is a local account as well but was it the same as the (DA) account? How do I to make changes to the username and password on the "Directory Administator" account? Thanks for the help.

perhaps a bit extreme, but you can force the server to restart from a blank slate, by deleting the .ServerSetupDone file.
sudo rm /var/db/.ServerSetupDone
Read more here:
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