[Zope] Newbie Password Frustration

[Alex Kelly]

It is probably a permissions problem.  When you run zpasswd.py, the file 
will be created as the user you are now.  It probably wants to be 
running as nobody, so you need to: chown nobody:nobody access
It also should not be readable by anyone else, so you should also do a 
chmod 400 access
after those steps, restart zope and all should be well.

Those steps worked for me anyway :)

Alex Kelly
Internet System Administrator
Franklin University

Janina Sajka wrote:

>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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