[ic] Password Problem

Mike Heins mike at perusion.com
Fri Sep 12 20:50:19 UTC 2008


Quoting kim Gross (kgross at jensalt.com):
> Paul Jordan wrote:
> >> bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of kim Gross
> >> I'm not sure what happened (could be something to do with a power
> >> outage), but I can no longer log in as admin to work on my interchange
> >> setup.  How can I reset the password or look it up on the machine?  I am
> >> running 5.4.2 on a Debian install via apt.
> >>     
> >
> > Kim, this has been asked and answer many times in the archives.
> >
> > However, this info is stored in <catroot>/products/access.asc. If you have
> > SSH access, the suggestions in the archives will work great.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> I guess I am just not smart enough to run this software.  I have looked 
> in access.asc, and can not find anything that seems to be the password.  
> Plus from what I could tell from reading the archives from years ago, 
> the password is encrypted,  So I am not sure what the password is.
> 
> my access.asc has this for the first 2 lines
> 
> username        password        name    last_login      super   
> yes_tables      no_tables       upload  acl     export  edit    pages   
> files   config  reconfig        groups  meta    no_functions    
> yes_functions   table_control   personal_css
> __MVC_SUPERUSER__       __MVC_CRYPTPW__ Site Admin      977216772       1
> 
> 
> Does this make the password the 977216772 entry?

No, this means you apparently copied over the catalog template without
running the "makecat" program. Normally makecat substitutes a username and
encrypted password for those markers.

In other words, you never had this particular catalog working in the
normal way. I don't know how you got access.gdbm in place with the
right values. Perhaps you have a MySQL access table?

In any case if you make the values be:

admin	pauONM/HSu9pM

instead of 

__MVC_SUPERUSER__	__MVC_CRYPTPW__

You will be able to log in with user "admin" and password "pass".

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Mike Heins
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