Re: Changing the admin password - help!

[Peter Bengtson <peter.bengtson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting - I find that other questions pertaining to iTools have been
answered on this list by Tenon, but not this one. Any ideas on how to
resolve it would be much appreciated.

        / Peter Bengtson

Peter Bengtson wrote:
> 
> Due to a bug in Netscape, my administrator name and password was
> accidentally distributed on a mailing list. Therefore, I tried changing
> the admin password using the iTools web interface, simply by changing
> the password on the Users page, and then by using the iTools
> application's "Set Admin Password" menu item, followed by a restart of
> the computer.
> 
> This resulted in very weird behaviour. I can no longer log in locally as
> the admin user - both the new and the old password is rejected.
> (Resetting the password to the old one makes it possible to log in
> again.) Also, the authentication for realms to which the admin had
> access is also screwed up in the same way. The iTools Manager
> application behaves in the same way.
> 
> Why doesn't this work, why aren't there any instructions anywhere on how
> to proceed if one wants to change the admin password, and what should I do?
> 
>         / Peter Bengtson
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