Re: Recovering/resetting old admin password
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 63639
interpreted = N
texte = On 12/19/05 1:44 PM, "Peter Ostry"
wrote:> It is evening in Austria, so> Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen,>=20> I want to say hello.>=20> I am new to this list.> No, wrong, first lie within the first minute :-)> I've been here from 1998 to 2000 and now subscribed again.Welcome back.> We run a website with Webcatalog 3 under Linux/Debian since years.> Now we installed version 6 and immediately started to get problems.>=20> First question:> I haven't been on the administration page of Webcat for the last> years and forgot the password. I think I cannot get it back but I am> not sure - any chance to see my old configuration to duplicate that> for the new server? If I can't recover the password, isn't there a> file somewhere, where I can see the settings we have on the old server?As far as I know, you can NOT recover a password since they're permanentlyencrypted in the Users.db database. If you open the Users.db file located i=nthe WebCatalogEngine directory using a text editor, you may be able to rese=tthe password with a new encrypted one. I created a test user with password:adminIt encrypted as follows: =DBm&%22=16!=1Bh> Second and less important:> Is it now called WebDNA 6 or WebCatalog 6?WebDNA 6-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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On 12/19/05 1:44 PM, "Peter Ostry" wrote:> It is evening in Austria, so> Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen,>=20> I want to say hello.>=20> I am new to this list.> No, wrong, first lie within the first minute :-)> I've been here from 1998 to 2000 and now subscribed again.Welcome back.> We run a website with Webcatalog 3 under Linux/Debian since years.> Now we installed version 6 and immediately started to get problems.>=20> First question:> I haven't been on the administration page of Webcat for the last> years and forgot the password. I think I cannot get it back but I am> not sure - any chance to see my old configuration to duplicate that> for the new server? If I can't recover the password, isn't there a> file somewhere, where I can see the settings we have on the old server?As far as I know, you can NOT recover a password since they're permanentlyencrypted in the Users.db database. If you open the Users.db file located i=nthe WebCatalogEngine directory using a text editor, you may be able to rese=tthe password with a new encrypted one. I created a test user with password:adminIt encrypted as follows: =DBm&%22=16!=1Bh> Second and less important:> Is it now called WebDNA 6 or WebCatalog 6?WebDNA 6-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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