admin password doesnt work

Monday 17 January 2005 9:39:48 pm

<i>Please Help</i>
I have completed (at least) ten clean installs of 3.5 on my local server. Each time I have completely deleted all of the ez publish files and started from scratch.

The admin password I enter during installation never works.

What should I do?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
(win-xp; apache2; mysql; php-4.3.10)

Wednesday 19 January 2005 8:59:33 pm

None of these options work either.

It seems to me that the session is cut short during the login re-direct or something.

(I don't get a login error message, just a new blank login page.)

Any suggestions?

<b>Thanks</b>

Monday 24 January 2005 9:52:33 pm

Hey!
I fixed the problem!

Just in case anyone else on this forum would like to fix the same problem go here: http://www.mamboserver.com and download the latest version of mambo instead.

<b>Thanks for all of your generous help everyone!</b>

Tuesday 25 January 2005 6:05:03 am

What's wrong with my post?

Thursday 27 January 2005 10:52:52 am

You are right Lukasz this was not very nice of me. I am a little frustrated after receiving no help from anyone. If there is no known solution to my problem please just let me know.

Yes Mambo works on my system but I would really like to try eZ. It just seems that no one is willing to help with my problems.

I have also tried eZ 3.4 and I still experience the same problems.
Also, in my tmp directory exist 2 cookies but one cookie contains no data.
This is why I suspect problems with sessions.

I will try one more time to get an answer to my questions.

Is there a solution for this?

Sorry for being unreasonable earlier.

Thanks for any help.

Thursday 27 January 2005 1:00:33 pm

I have the same problem. I installed win bundled version on W2kSP4,mySql. I used installer, only I changed the encodind of my database to iso8859-2 instead of w1250, but it should not have differ.
Then I can log on as a user, no problem. But not on admin page (template corporate). Under IE it is just refresh the screen and blank field user and psswd. Under Mozilla, refresh and user and psswd remain in fields.
I tried to update the password as recommended in a post above, no success.
If I mistape wrong password, it is not the case - there is a warning about bad password.
So where could be the problem?
Thanks for any hint
Tomas

Friday 28 January 2005 1:57:47 am

strange indeed.. I'll talk to the other guys here.. maybe someone knows. I'm out of ideas though. Sorry.

Friday 04 February 2005 10:22:09 pm

<b>HEY! It Works ;)</b>

The problem had nothing at all to do with eZpublish, but rather with my fire-wall (Zone Alarm). I shut it down and it works great now. Forgive me.

Love the tableless layout!

Saturday 05 February 2005 1:28:48 pm

Hi Craig,

It`s good to see that you solved your problem. Now you can realy start your adventure with eZ publish CMS. Good luck and enjoy the web ;-)

Personal website -> http://serwatka.net
Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog

Saturday 23 July 2005 10:01:23 pm

I had the same problem while checking my progress in installing/migrating between 3.6 & 3.7.

Somewhere the install system does indeed use "publish" as default admin password!

<b>My fresh install had these defaults (via phpmyadmin):</b>

contentobject_id = 14
email = nospam@ez.no
login = admin
password_hash = c78e3b0f3d9244ed8c6d1c29464bdff9
password_hash_type = 2

<b>An inspection turned up this related info:</b>

<b>File:</b> kernel/sql/mysql/cleandata.sql
<b>Line#:</b> 80
<b>SQL Query:</b> INSERT INTO ezuser (contentobject_id, email, login, password_hash, password_hash_type) VALUES (10,'nospam@ez.no','anonymous','4e6f6184135228ccd45f8233d72a0363',2), (14,'nospam@ez.no','admin','c78e3b0f3d9244ed8c6d1c29464bdff9',2);

<b>File:</b> kernel/sql/common/cleandata.sql
<b>Line#:</b> 912
<b>SQL Query:</b> INSERT INTO ezuser (contentobject_id, email, login, password_hash, password_hash_type) VALUES (14,'nospam@ez.no','admin','c78e3b0f3d9244ed8c6d1c29464bdff9',2);

<b>File:</b> kernel/sql/postgresql/cleandata.sql
<b>Line#:</b> 1015
<b>SQL Query:</b> INSERT INTO ezuser (contentobject_id, email, login, password_hash, password_hash_type) VALUES (14,'nospam@ez.no','admin','c78e3b0f3d9244ed8c6d1c29464bdff9',2);

If one wished to go further and manually generate their own hashed key have fun. Anyone remember what /etc/shadow uses? Memory fails me. :(

Edit: I think PHP has a function for this, including "salt" and whatnot.