[Zope] Newbie Password Frustration

[Chris McDonough]

To head off the inevitable second question, no, the emergency user (defined
in the access file) cannot create any objects besides users. ;-)  You need
to create a manager user via "inituser" or manually and then use that
account to do your Zope site management.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net>
To: "Alex Kelly" <kellya@babbage.franklin.edu>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie Password Frustration


>
> 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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> > >
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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
>
>
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