[Zope-dev] How to recover passwords in Zope 2.6.4

[Andreas Jung]

--On 2. Februar 2007 10:01:58 -0800 Rohit Arora <rohitarora3 at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

>
> hi all,
> i have my website in zope 2.6.4 and i have forgotton UserId(admin) and
> Password of root direcrorty of zope.
> please tell me Is there any way to recover admin password ? or is there
> any default UID & password provided in zope.


> i guess passwords are stored in zpasswd.py file in zope installation
> folder.

Wrong. Passwords are stored in the ZODB (/acl_users).

You can of course create an emergency user to access the site again. However
I can't remember how to do that in Zope 2.6. Somehow you need to create
a 'inituser' file. You might look at an old version of the Zope Book 
2.5/2.6 edition.

-aj
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