Bug 49627 – trouble with zope management interface initial admin password

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Lee Thompson 2004-05-01 10:56:37 UTC]

I was having an awful time getting a sucessful login into the zope management console after installing Zope and Plone.  It took me a while to work around it but this is what I did.  Basically the "inituser" file from the gentoo ebuild ends up in $(ZOPE_HOME) and needs to end up in $(INSTANCE_HOME) prior to executing zope for the first time.  This would be a nice comment to check for the presense of inituser in $(INSTANCE_HOME) at the end of the ebuild.  I agree with Jean Jordaan that zope-config is too cryptic for novice use http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33227.  I was confused because I saw the ebuild create an inituser file in the /var/tmp/portage directory so I didn't think zope-config should be run.  Once you screw up, I couldn't figure out how to recover a password on an existing zope DB and unmerge doesn't touch the databases as you would expect, so blow it away is what I did.

The section on "zope initial manager" was essential for me get going http://zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/InstallingZope.stx/Security.stx

WARNING - This deletes your ZOPE Database!!!!  Only okay for fresh installs!!!

#! RECREATE ZOPE DB with new Initial manager/admin account
# /etc/init.d/zope-2_6_4 stop
# cd /var/lib/zope/zope-2_6_4/var
# rm *
# cd /usr/share/zope/zope-2.6.4-r1
# python zpasswd.py inituser

Username: admin
Password:
Verify password:

Please choose a format from:

SHA - SHA-1 hashed password
CRYPT - UNIX-style crypt password
CLEARTEXT - no protection.

Encoding: SHA
Domain restrictions:    

#! HERE IS THE IMPORTANT PART
# cp inituser /var/lib/zope/zope-2_6_4
# /etc/init.d/zope-2_6_4 start
#! DONE, log into zope at http://localhost:8080





Here is my confuration...


root # cat /etc/conf.d/zope-2_6_4
#-- startup options
ZOPE_OPTS="-u zope"
INSTANCE_HOME=//var/lib/zope//zope-2_6_4
SOFTWARE_HOME=//usr/share/zope//zope-2.6.4-r1//lib/python
ZOPE_HOME=//usr/share/zope//zope-2.6.4-r1/




On my system I'm using the latest stuff from Zope/Plone
Using ebuild: net-zope/zope-2.6.4-r1

root # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords
#
# Subversion stuff
#
dev-util/subversion ~x86
net-misc/neon ~x86
#
#  Using mod_perl for smokeping, mod_perl for apache2 is new
#
dev-perl/mod_perl ~x86
#
# Plone 2 is just out!
#
net-zope/plone ~x86
net-zope/groupuserfolder ~x86
net-zope/epoz ~x86
net-zope/ploneerrorreporting ~x86
net-zope/cmfquickinstallertool ~x86
net-zope/plonetranslations ~x86
net-zope/placelesstranslationservice-fork ~x86
net-zope/formulator ~x86
net-zope/cmf ~x86
net-zope/cmfformcontroller ~x86
net-zope/externaleditor ~x86
net-zope/btreefolder2 ~x86
net-zope/archetypes ~x86
net-zope/portaltransforms ~x86
app-text/xlhtml ~x86
app-text/pdftohtml ~x86
net-zope/cmfactionicons ~x86

[Comment 1 Jodok Batlogg (RETIRED) 2004-05-01 14:23:40 UTC]

you might want to try zope-config --zpasswd :) it's much easier

does zope-config solve your problem?

[Comment 2 Lee Thompson 2004-05-02 13:11:46 UTC]

I remember reading http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2003-September/140591.html and tried the zope-config --zpasswd a few times, didn't work.  The hard way did.

Guess it goes back to the zope-config documentation issue (zope.org) and documenting the differences between source install of zope and the ebuild install of zope (gentoo.org).  http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2003-September/140597.html.  Both issues are confusing.  My intent here is to capture an example user problem and getting that experience into future ebuilds which try to get the install more bombproof...