[Zope] Zope won't start

[Chris McDonough]

Hi Leonard,

if you create an 'access' file with zpasswd, that file's contents select
the "superuser" account, which is different than the emergency user
account, although you can create users with it.

if you create an 'inituser' file with zpasswd, the contents of the
inituser file go towards creating an emergency user.

The emergency user is more like root than the superuser, for hysterical
reasons.

- C


Leonard Sitongia wrote:
> 
> I found a fix to the "no module new" from searching the web: comment
> out the Python Modules/Setup configuration of "new newmodule.c".
> 
> I couldn't get around the PyMethod_Type problem, so I built Python
> and Zope (2.2.2) from the ports.  Now I have Zope running, but
> I can't use the manage interface because the zopemaster password
> doesn't work, even when I reset it with post-install instructions of
> 
> python zpasswd.py -u <username> -p <passwd> -e CLEARTEXT access
> 
> Did my attempts at source-install with it's "admin" account password
> corrupt the acl for the ports-install?  Something wrong with cleartext
> authentication?  This authentication stuff is a hurdle.  I think I understand
> that using zpasswd creates and "emergency" account, which can't do
> everything.  Why do different "distrubutions" have different management
> passwords?  Is there a concept of a "root" account that has authority to
> do everything?  Does it have a unique name?  Is this different from the
> emergency account?  Whew!
> 
> ==Leonard
> 
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