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user login and password
The staff at Gossamer Threads just finished an install for me last week but I do not have a password and login to the admin cgi. Is there anyway I can reset it through the file manager, so that I can access my admin panel.
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Hi,

The easiest way, is to go into FTP, and goto your /cgi-bin/links/admin (or wherever your admin.cgi script is), and type:

Code:
DELE .htaccess

..and then:

Code:
DELE .htpasswd

If you have SSH, you can do it with:

Code:
cd /path/to/glinks/admin
rm .htaccess
rm .htpasswd

Hope that helps.

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Re: [Andy] user login and password In reply to
Ok now that I deleted these files I need to create them.

I went to http://www.htaccesstools.com/...cess-authentication/

but what do I use for a file path. I do not think I can use the path /cgi-bin/links/admin/

thanks
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Re: [rowhouser] user login and password In reply to
Hi,

Go to your admin panel, and click on the link in the main frame, when it loads :) Think it says something like "protect now" ... or very similar Smile

Hope that helps.

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Re: [Andy] user login and password In reply to
Hi Andy

I did jus that here

Warning: It appears that the admin directory has not yet been password protected. If you are on an Apache server, you can do it directly from admin panel, otherwise you should contact your ISP to protect this directory.

that but it says the file htaccess does not exsist.

A fatal error has occured:

Could not open '/var/home/xxxxxxx/xxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/.htpasswd': No such file or directory at /var/home/xxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links/Tools.pm line 1592.Please enable debugging in setup for more details.

So I replaced the file htaccess file in the admin directory but then it locks up my admin panel.
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Re: [rowhouser] user login and password In reply to
Hi,

Do you have SSH?

If so, do this:

Code:
cd /path/to/admin
htpasswd -c .htpasswd USERNAMER_TO_MAKE


...then in your admin .htacces file, put this in it:

Code:
AuthUserFile /path/to/your/admin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
AuthName Protected

require valid-user

That should do it :)

Cheers

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Ok I re did the htaccess file using the code you gave me. I then generated the htpassword file and put the two files in their respective folders and it worked.

Thanks for the quick responses. I have been losing way too much time playing with this software.
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Re: [rowhouser] user login and password In reply to
Hi,

No problem - glad its working Smile

Cheers

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