[Setup] Re: completely locked out

Gary Koskenmaki garyk at skilltran.net
Thu Mar 27 16:29:24 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 08:46 +0000, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:58 +0000, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> >> Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks for the reply Stefan, but I'd already tried that.  It doesn't
> >>> work because cookies are somehow disabled and I cannot reach a login
> >>> portal in Plone or any kind of login prompt in the ZMI.  
> >> Are cookies enabled in your browser? Perhaps the automated tool turned 
> >> them off?
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> > Yes.  They are enabled.  The message I get from the plone site, where
> > the login portlet should appear but does not, is that because cookies
> > are disbled the login portlet will not work.  
> > 
> > I think everyone who has answered this is misunderstanding the problem.
> > Maybe it's because of the way I explained it.  
> > 
> > I'm not even being given a chance to login.  I don't see how whether I
> > have cookies enabled or disabled in my browser could cause that.  If I
> > had cookies disabled in my browser I would get an error message telling
> > me I need to enable cookies after I entered my username and password.  I
> > can't enter my user name and password as the login portal does not exist
> > on the Plone site.
> 
> Aha. What about the "login" link in the blue bar at the top? What if you 
> append /login to the end of your site URL?

That login link is still there, but clicking on it gives the same error
message that appears where the login portal should be: while cookies are
disabled you can't log in.
> 
> > When accessing the ZMI from the Zope Quick Start page no login form pops
> > up when clicking on the Zope Management Interface link and results in an
> > error saying that a resource is not available.  The resource that is
> > does not exist is according to the error message is 
> > http://localhost:8081/acl_users/credentials_cookie_auth/login_form, i.e.
> > where you enter the administrator's user name and password.  It simply
> > doesn't pop up to give me a chance to enter the ZMI.  That cannot be
> > browser related.  
> 
> Do you have backups?
Yeah, but nothing recent enough to save all the documentation I've
written lately.  That's all I cared about saving as the site itself is a
lab for learning Plone and Zope.  
> 
> Martin
> 




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