On May 15, 5:11pm, Paul Everitt wrote: } Subject: RE: [Zope] setting passwords } } Howard wrote: } > Bill wrote: } > > I kept wondering why I never saw a box to set the user } > password, then I } > > finally discovered it was because I'm accessing the } > management interface } > > from a remote system (i.e. not the system Zope is installed } > on). The web } > > server box Zope is installed on does not have an operating } > X server, so } > > even if I physically went to that machine, I still couldn't fire up } > > Netscape to set the passwords. } > } > Not sure what you're problem is here. I can set passwords } > from any netscape. } } I _think_ this might mean the server is using .htpasswd for the } passwords. Zope has a hack, created for folks that just can't get their } web server to pass along authentication information, to let the web } server handle authentication. } } If that mode is on, it might be the reason you can't set the password. } } Sorry I'm not more helpful :^( } } --Paul }-- End of excerpt from Paul Everitt Is this mode what is indicated by 'remote_user_mode__'? What made me suspect remote access vs. local access was the use of this variable in addUser.dtml as in: <!--#if remote_user_mode__--> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="password" value="password"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="confirm" value="password"> <!--#else--> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP"> <STRONG>Password</STRONG> </TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP"> <INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD" NAME="password" SIZE="40"> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP"> <STRONG>(Confirm)</STRONG> </TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP"> <INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD" NAME="confirm" SIZE="40"> </TD> </TR> <!--#/if--> I followed the instructions and suggestions previously posted on this list for setting up the Apache access.conf file: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) RewriteRule ^/Zope/Gamba_home/(.*) /var/www/titan/markgamba.com/Zope.cgi/Gamba_home/$1 [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l] ^^^ above is one long line ^^^ <Directory "/var/www/titan/markgamba.com"> Options Includes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI </Directory> Is this not correct? -Bill