Re: [phpesp-general] password confusion

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

You should be able to change the root password from the Designer page in
the management interface.
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:13 -0700, Christopher Adams wrote:
> I am a little confused about passwords when configuring phpESP. I have 
> the application working and so far, there don't seem to be any problems. 
> So, you may ask why this guy is trying to fix something that isn't broken.
> 
> Well, it stems from confusion about passwords. Just by  chance, though 
> maybe I had read it somewhere, I finally was able get to the management 
> screen by using username: root, password: esp. However, I would like to 
> change this, but can't quite see where to do it. The installation help 
> says to change the default password from 'phpesp' before executing the 
> 'mysql_create.sql' script. I assume that means for the 'phpesp' user 
> that is created. I didn't change the default password in the script 
> before running it and so it says:
> 
> INSERT INTO user (host, user, password) VALUES ( 'myserver',
>    'phpesp', PASSWORD('phpesp'));
> 
> Then it says to use this same password when configuring phpESP. That 
> would be the section in phpESP.ini.php, which says:
> 
> // Database connection information
> $ESPCONFIG['db_host'] = 'myserver.anywhere.com';
> $ESPCONFIG['db_user'] = 'otheruser';
> $ESPCONFIG['db_pass'] = 'otherpass';
> $ESPCONFIG['db_name'] = 'phpesp';
> 
> However, I entered a username/password that is different from the phpesp 
> username/password, and one that allows me to access teh 'phpesp' 
> database. Everything works fine.
> 
> 
> So, the bottom line is, what should I be doing and how can I change the 
> admin username/password for management?
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mcg
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