You may be able to save off your data.fs, reinstall zope, the attach your old data.fs as mountable storage? I have never used mountable storage, so I have no idea if this would work or not. Look on google for more info on mountable storage. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Jorge O. Martinez [mailto:jmartinez@emediamillworks.com] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:03 AM To: David Archer Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Stupid newbie question From the XUF FAQ: 11. HELP!!!! I tried to install XUF as my root folder, without reading the FAQ, or really knowing what I'm doing, and now I'm hosed!!! That's a shame. You may be out of luck, Jorge M. David Archer wrote:

Hello everyone. I have a small problem.

I was trying to install the etcUserFolder object on my Zope server so I downloaded the tarball and it extracted into the correct directory (lib/python/Products/etcUserFolder). I had to muck about with some sym-links to libcrypt on my box (It's running FreeBSD 4.4) and after a few restarts, it saw it as a successfully installed product. I then proceeded to delete my root acl_users folder (it only had one entry in it anyway) and add a new etcUserFolder object. Now I can't login at all to any of the manage screens to fix it.

I tried the zpasswd.py script to generate an access (and an inituser) file to see if either of these would get picked up but it still won't let me log in. I tried using my UNIX system username and password and that didn't work either. I know that FreeBSD actually uses a /etc/master.passwd file to hold the encrypted passwords, not /etc/passwd so I don't even know if the etcUserFolder is looking at the right file. The documentation on this product is limited (from what I can find) to the two-paragraph README file that it comes distributed with. I've tried looking through the source code to see if I could get more information about the product but the comments aren't very helpful.

I'm at the end of my ideas and short of scrapping the whole installation, can anyone suggest a way for me to fix this problem? If it's simply not possible (which I doubt), is there a way for me to retrieve the objects (DTML documents and such) that I've created and just re-install Zope completely? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

David Archer

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