[Zope] HELP!!!

Jim Washington jwashin@vt.edu
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:15:27 -0400


PenguinHO@aol.com wrote:

>I was reading the administrator's guide and I came acrross the need to use 
>the EMERGENCY USER. I accidentally changed the admin password. I was trying 
>to change another user accounts password and instead changed that one. I 
>typed in 43046 as the password, but it made it 8 characters when i went back, 
>before I knew it I accidentally logged out of zope and now I am stuck with 
>the admin password as some unknown 8 characters. I treid the emergency user 
>and it doesn't work
>
>I went to command prompt in Windows 2000 and i went to C:/Python22
>then ran "python C:\PROGRA~1\NFHL\zpasswd.py access" from the prompt
>I filled out the form but the emergency user does not work. 
>
>I tried logging in through my browser. Am I supposed to log in a differnt way 
>wth the emergency user? I just need to change the admin password back. 
>  
>
Hi, Daniel

Make sure the access file you are working with is in your zope root 
directory.

Likely, something like the following will work (untested) :

"python C:\PROGRA~1\NFHL\zpasswd.py C:\PROGRA~1\NFHL\access"

Then restart zope so it knows about the new user.

-- Jim Washington