[Xerte] Cannot Log In as Admin

[Dave Burnett]

admin



Subject: RE: [Xerte] Cannot Log In as Admin
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:46:25 +0100
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
















Here’s
a password hashed in the one way uncrackable MD5 algorithm:

 

e6078b9b1aac915d11b9fd59791030bf

 

Now,
go and paste that into google and see how long it takes you to work out the
actual password…

 





From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley

Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 11:41 AM

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] Cannot Log In as Admin





 

Hello,

 

Yes management.php, it is LDAP
free.

 

If you go to your sitedetails
table, you can set the admin_username and admin_password. Assuming these are
set, and it sounds like they are – does it just say they aren’t correct. Mine
works fine – I think Johnathan’s works as well – pretty sure Ron’s works too.

 

Re MD5 – yep, over sight on my
part – reasoning – we had a lot of people with 0.5 and 0.8 installs where there
was no admin role. When we moved to 0.9 and 1.0 originally we modded the
logindetails table to allow for a user role flag, but this would mean everyone
with an install modding their tables. Which seemed a hassle. So I put the admin
username into the sitedetails table at the last minute instead, and left it.

 

You’re welcome to MD5 it
yourself though – you’d just need to put an un md5 command into config.php. 

 

I’ll put it in the list for the
next version.

 

Pat

 





From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Hopkins

Sent: 22 May 2009 11:32

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Subject: [Xerte] Cannot Log In as Admin





 

Hello All,

 

I have installed the full version Xerte on a
linux virtual server. All seemed to go according to plan until I came to log
in.

 

I cannot log in using the administrators
username and password. I have re-installed / checked fields in database etc and
it still will not allow me in.

 

I have not got LDAP running yet, but am
assuming that LDAP is not required for the admin account, and that admin is
completely independent of the normal routines with the credential residing in
the sitedetails table? (would it not be better to MD5 the password in site
details?)

 

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

 

Thanks, Jeremy


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