[Zope] Newbie Password Frustration

[Janina Sajka]

Ah, got it! It's /var/zope/access

Rather obvious, now that I've found it. Thanks everyone. Much obliged.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Alex Kelly wrote:

> 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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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp

Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp

Learn how to make accessible software at
http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp