[Zope] Newbie: /Manage Password problems

[Morten W. Petersen]

addyd@unk.edu wrote:
> 
> Successfully installed Zope on a LinuxPPC Mac a couple of months ago and
> have been reading/studying to grasp concepts, but had not worked with it
> for a while. Found it had quit, so telnetted in and did a ./start . Serves
> the default page OK, so looks like I'm up and running. Attempting to visit
> the manage screen, I find that the originally assigned password is not
> accepted. (had not run zpasswd.py to change it yet).
> 
> Looking at the access file, the password in the file looks nothing like the
> one I wrote down when I installed it. For one thing, the password that I
> wrote down is 8 characters long and the one in "access"  is HUGE. My
> question is: What _part_ of that access file password string is actually
> the password that I should use to get back to the manage screen? I've tried
> any/all combinations that I can think of.
> 
> Right now the file says:
> superuser:{SHA} followed by 14 characters, then a "/", then 12 more
> characters, and finally an "="
> 
> ???
> 
> Any enlightenment will be appreciated.

The password is encrypted .. =)

Morten W. Petersen