Admin and users cannot login

Thursday 11 October 2007 12:46:25 pm

When trying to login to the admin interface, I would be sent back to the same login screen, with no errors. I manually changed my password by updating hash in the password_hash field in ezUser table using the following format username\npassword.

Now It is telling me that it does not recognize my username/password.

It does this for all users, and new users cannot activate accounts or login as well...

Nothing was changed (on my part) between when I was logged in and when it wanted me to relog, and could not.

Any Ideas?

*Edit*
Trying to login to the admin site with a normal user will produce an "Access Denied" message, but admin is unable to login. Although users will authenticate on main page, it will not actually log them in, as where the admin account will not not authenticate.

Friday 12 October 2007 2:45:12 am

Hi Derrick,

I had a problem like that. It was because of a database corruption. This corruption was due to the ezsession table that keeps on growing with the default Debian (and Ubuntu...) configuration of session handler in PHP.
See http://issues.ez.no/10431

Damien
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Saturday 03 November 2007 9:03:35 pm

It's my first week here among you guys and hope to be able to contribute soon.
I am learning by making every possible mistake.
Yesterday I experienced the same problem. Turned on debugging and also noticed a select on the ezsession table I made a back up and then truncated the table and it fixed it.
I guess deleting entries specific to your user id should work.

Note there is a cronjobs script in contributions that clears up sessions. I am taking a look at it.

Ousmane Ba