-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Weiers Coetser wrote:

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You can create an 'access' file in the instance home (looks like '/var/lib/zope2.8/plone-site' in your case), with an "emergency user" ID and password; you can even leave the password in plain text while testing, e.g.:

$ cat /var/lib/zope2.8/plone-site/access emergency:123

You should then be able to log in as that user after restarting Zope; that user has limited powers, mostly involving creating "normal" users and setting up user folders.

It's just not working. I created the access file, but I am still asked for a password that I cannot seem to provide. I've now uninstalled all of Plone and All of Zope, and used Synaptic to try to install only Zope. I installed the Zope Sandbox, but I still cannot get it launched. Now I get "The connection was refused when attempting to contact local host 8081. I tried to create an instance using ./bin/runzope command, but every time I got error messages (I could not locate a ./bin/runzope anywhere except in the /var/lib/zope2.9/instances/sandbox directory.

Am I getting the impression that Ubuntu is doing a very non-standard install of Zope?

I'm sorry that I'm complaining. I've spent more than 5 hours trying to solve this now. I am very new to linux and I am learning a lot (even in the process of solving this problem). The environment is quite different to Windows, where I downloaded Plone and had it working in a few minutes. I just don't want to keep dual-booting if I can do it right here in my native filesystem.

I don't normally install the packaged versions. Here is what I just did: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install zope2.8 $ sudo apt-get install plone2.1 This fails: "Couldn't find package plone2.1" $ sudo apt-get install plone-site which wants a lot of zope2.7 packages installed. I don't know how you were able to install plone2.1 via synaptic. Here is something else to try: $ sudo /var/lib/zope2.8/plone-site/bin/zopectl zope> adduser admin 123 zope> restart You should then be able to log in as 'admin' with password '123'. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDe2pR+gerLs4ltQ4RAgs+AJ9LtCekeacDkemFeMNfwr4yRTsd6gCgza2H GJUFTduNgo5VHle2T1rtJ4s= =E0Cl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----