[Zope] Deian setup

[J Cameron Cooper]

James Hosken wrote:

> I'm running Debian sarge and I've just installed zope and plone, but I 
> can't seam to login to the zope management area.
>
> zope is running, I can see it at http://localhost:9673/ but I can 
> login using 'cmsuser' and 'password'
>
> I've used zope-zpasswd -u james -p password /var/lib/zope/access to 
> set up another user and then restarted zope but I still can't login.

> Can any one tell me what I'm doing wrong and where I can find some 
> debian specific instructions.

A few things to know:

 - 'inituser' (for initial user creation) and 'access' (for emergency 
user) must be in your INSTANCE_HOME if you're running like that, or in 
the root of your zope install otherwise
 - they must be readable by the system user running Zope
 - 'inituser' is only used when creating a new Data.fs, so delete the 
existing one to use this
 - 'access' only creates an emergency user, and if you get access that 
way you will need to use it to create a new manager that you can 
actually use later
 - read doc/SECURITY.TXT

My usual sequence if I lose a password on a new install is like this:

go to zope install directory
'python zpasswd.py inituser'
follow the prompts
if I'm doing INSTANCE_HOME, go there and move 'inituser' over
remove existing Data.fs
start Zope
open browser to 'localhost:8080/manage' and login

Debian apparently uses a different port (which shouldn't matter) and 
changes the name of the script (which also shouldn't matter.) I don't 
know what else is different, but many people report problems with the 
Debian Zope package. It may be easier to install it regularly.

          --jcc

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