[Zope] Encrypting passwords

Lennart Regebro lennart@regebro.nu
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:36:24 +0100


From: "Martin F Krafft" <krafft@ifi.unizh.ch>
> In the properties of acl_users, I found a checkbox 'Encrypt user
> passwords' and enabled it, then clicked on 'Update existing
> passwords'. The result was that users could not log in anymore, not
> even when I turned the checkbox off again (and clicked 'Update...').
>
> What's the deal here?

If you do this, and passwords are already encrypted, then they get encrypted
again, which could be the reason you are having problems.

This bug has been fixed for 2.6.1. You probably need to go in and set new
passwords for your users. I hope they aren't too many. :-)