[Zope] Newbie Password Frustration

[Chris McDonough]

Hi Janina,

Try creating a file in the Zope main directory named "inituser" and put this
inside of it:

admin:xxx

Then restart (or start) Zope, and try to log in as admin, password xxx.

If that doesn't work, try creating a file named "access" in the same
directory with the contents:

emergencyuser:xxx

Then try logging on as "emergencyuser", password xxx.  Create a user in Zope
via the management interface, log out as emergency user, and log back in as
the user you've created.

- C

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: [Zope] Newbie Password Frustration


> Hello:
>
> I have the rpm of Zope 2.3.2-1 installed. Accessing http://localhost:8080
> brings up a Zope page, so I'm assuming the basic install is good.
>
> What I cannot figure out for the life of me is how to pass the
> administration password.
>
> 1.) I have no knowledge of what the default was set to by the rpm
> install. I saw no message about this during the installation;
>
> 2.) Perhaps more to the point, I can't figure where, exactly, Zope is
> looking for this user/password data;
>
> 3.) I see the python scripts for changing passwords in
> /usr/share/zope/utilities. zpasswd.py -u superuser -p [passwd] access
> seems to work OK. It writes a lovely access file that looks a lot like
> /etc/passwd. So, I chmod it to 600 and restart zope and try again. Still
> no cigar;
>
> I have searched docs, etc--but nothing is getting me past this impediment.
> What am I doing wrong? Is the administrator user still defaulted to
> username 'superuser?' Do I create this as a system account on my linux
> system and put a password in /etcpasswd & /etc/shadow? If not, where does
> it need to be?
>
> Thanks in advance. I'd dearly love to move on to more interesting
> problems! <grin>
>
>
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