[ic] Re: Big Login Problem, :backup, access.Asc , and an
encryption problem
Ed LaFrance
edl@newmediaems.com
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:46:24 -0800
At 03:31 AM 03/20/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>It's me again (Alan Young) with my Big Login Problem.
>
>I am trying to get in to my admin area, thanks to all of you for telling me
>about access.asc. and the :backup back door. That is the only way I could
>get in to my site.
>
>So I go in to /var/lib/interchange/construct/products/access.asc
>
>I see a line in access.asc describing my admin user and it says....
>username password name last_login super etc
>admin 123 Alan Young 985173411 1 2ndDayAir
>Ground NextDay etc
>
>The password 123 got there because I logged in as :backup and I clicked
>administration, then tables, then I chose the table named access.
>Then I typed 123. Then I went back to telnet and viewed access.asc and
>there it was, clear as day , the password was 123.
>
>But the 123 password never got encrypted when it is stored in access.asc, so
>when I then try to login as user=admin, password=123 , I never am able to
>log in, it says Failure: Password mismatch.
>
>So the administrative interface is not encrypting my password before it puts
>it in to my access.asc table.
>
>Ideas? Solutions? Suggestions? Is this a bug, or do I have some encryption
>setting messed up? There are so many parameters to set, I must have missed
>something in the install maybe.
>
Please trim the enclosures in your replies - it looks like you had an
entire week's worth of postings attached to this one!
The quickest way I can think of to solve your trouble is to make another
catalog with a different name. Pay close attention to the username and
password you enter for Super User (when prompted by makecat). Then copy
the access.asc from the products directory of that new catalog to the same
place in your existing catalog. This should force access.gdbm to be
rebuilt with the new Admin entries - you can delete access.gdbm, just to
ensure that it gets rebuilt. When all is well and you can log in to the
admin area, you can delete the other catalog and remove it from
interchange.cfg.
- Ed L.
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