thanks very much, that is it, just copied either the access or inituser there and was able to login, i can't believe that after reading 20+ google type references/posts/etc that the instance directory was either mis-stated, or not there, one post had it being the 'skel' directory. or if anybody else is reading this, instance is defined in the zope.conf file, which i'm not saying to mess with at this point, but it can at least be viewed with text editor, so you can find it there. thanks again Roberto Lupi <roberto.lupi@gmail.com> wrote in news:abd7259405020623293e74b972@mail.gmail.com:
I think that you should create those files in the 'Plone 2/Data' directory, becaues that is the instance directory.
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 02:58:19 +0000 (UTC), bbxrider <bxtrap01@comcast.net> wrote:
this install runs under win2k changed the original install adminstrator password and then i couldn't get into the zmi, but i can get into my plone site i have run and rerun and rerun zpasswd,py inituser and access and created both those files in the plone 2/zope/bin directory i have copied both files to the plone 2/zope directory and the plone 2/zope/skel directory, i copied into all those directories trying to follow the various posts to have them in the 'zope-instance' directory after each file create and copy, i stopped and restarted zope however, nothing is working, i can't login. after 3 trys i get the 'You are not authorized to access this resource' blank page i even tried creating usernames of 'superuser' and 'access' that some posts seem to indicate to use those names, as you can see i'm pretty desperate, even tried one post suggestion to run zpasswd -u admin -p 123 access but not sure about the last one desperate for help here
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