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Admin user/pass first album (Fresh install 1.17)

jrlrocks Member
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Hi There,

I have spent a couple hours working with Zenphoto. I had 1.16 installed and upgraded to 1.17 and everything was fine.

As I have been learning Zenphoto; I use FTP to up load pictures (wonderful feature!). I didn't realize that when FTP'd the images are not re-sized. My camera takes 6MB pictures and I wanted to be space sensitive on my server. I decided to delete my install + databases and start over - a fresh install of 1.17 - (Plus I cleaned out other stuff)

Here's my problem: I installed 1.17 in a cinch! I uploaded a folder with about 60 pics to the album folder. Then wanted to edit the pictures gallery from Zenphoto admin.

Album guest user & pass has my admin name 'pre-loaded' & Album password pre-loaded. (I don't recall that happening before.) I can't edit anything unless I repeat the admin password - then it locks the album gallery to anyone else but me.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled 1.17 3-4 times with the same result. I want the album to be visible to everyone. How to remove my admin user/pass from the album guest user/pass?

Thanks,
J

Comments

  • sbillard Member
    Sounds like you are placing your user/password in the gallery configuration tab rather than the admisistrator tab. Setting a user/password up for your gallery. Just delete the user/password from there.
  • jrlrocks Member
    I only set the password when I did the install. (When it asked for it) I with 2X check now! Thanks!
  • jrlrocks Member
    I checked - I have user/pass as admin under options -> admin information.
    The above password is what is required for access to my album/gallery

    I don't have a user/pass under options -> gallery.

    If I'm missing something... let me know.

    J
  • jrlrocks Member
    so I just found Zenphoto 1.16 on the web... installed it and created an album.
    Works awesome. Not sure what happened. I'm going to upgrade it and see what happens.
  • jrlrocks Member
    Upgraded and still have the problem. How do I delete the guest user/pass? Or set a guest user pass of blank/blank? The only thing that happened different from when I had 1.17 installed the first time and now was that my host upgraded SQL and PHP

    Thanks,
  • sbillard Member
    Passwords may be set in the following places:

    on the gallery configuration tab for the gallery and search passwords
    on individual album edit pages for the album in question.

    When are you getting the login screen? When you visit the gallery page or when you click on an album?

    Perhaps a link to your site might help.
  • jrlrocks Member
    I login fine.

    Gallery configuration guest user/pass is blank.
    admin user/pass has my credentials.

    my album has admin user/pass there by default. If I repeat the pass on the album I lock the album from general view

    http://www.jasonlambert.ca/main/photos
  • jrlrocks Member
    As you can see in this picture. I wanted to show you what I see. I changed my user/pass for the illustration. Every time I edit the album and 'save' it tells me that the passwords don't match. If I enter the second password then the album locks. This is the same user/pass as the admin account.
    Passwords may be set in the following places:

    on the gallery configuration tab for the gallery and search passwords
    on individual album edit pages for the album in question.
    I don't have any passwords in the above quoted area. Only the admin user/pass.
  • jrlrocks Member
    http://jasonlambert.ca/main/photos/demo/userpass.jpg.php?p=*full-image

    image required for above.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Leave that fields blank and it should work. Could it be that you have form completion enabled in your browser?
  • jrlrocks Member
    No - last time I installed it I purged my browser prior to install. Last step and only time to insert anything was the admin user and pass. So I entered and the user and pass on the albums have the admin user pass on them as explained above.

    Can I delete it? Or
    How do I avoid it being entered?

    Thanks,
    J
  • jrlrocks Member
    Seem to have resolved my own problem.

    Instead of installing the 1.1.7.zip I downloaded the 1.1.7.tar.gz unzipped and installed that. Also, instead of using Firefox. I used IE7.

    The admin user/pass is setup and the album/gallery doesn't have a user/pass preset.
    option -> gallery configuration doesn't have a user/pass.

    So either there's a bug in 1.1.7.zip or there's a bug with using Firefox. I did clear history, cookies, offline data etc... in firefox as well as in IE7 for the install.
  • jrlrocks Member
    For sure it's Firefox trying to be helpful and entering the user/pass. The issue is that once the user/pass get inputted into the album/gallery you can't delete it. (It shows up in IE7 too.) It also impacts any 'edit' updates you do to the album as Zenphoto will complain that the user/pass doesn't match anytime you 'save' after making a change.

    My suggestion would be that zenphoto doesn't except an album gallery user/pass unless it's the password has been 'repeated' and or the save button has been depressed.

    Thanks,
    J
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    First glad to hear that IE is able to solve problems at all..:-)

    I never noticed this behaviour.The solution would actualy be to disable the form completion in Firefox (Options > Security > Store passwords, have a German version running so I don'T know the correct english term right now) which is generally recommend for security reasons.
  • sbillard Member
    The password does have to be repeated correctly to be accepted. And it is not saved until the save button is pressed.
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