Re: [Phpwiki-talk] root taking over - help!

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Giovanni Sce schrieb:
>>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:33:59 +0100
>>From: Reini Urban <ru...@x-...>
>>To:  gi...@be...
>>CC:  php...@li...
>>Subject: Re: [Phpwiki-talk] root taking over - help!
>>
>>Giovanni Sce schrieb:
>>
>>>today, without have changed anything user "root" is taking over my phpwiki!! :-(
>>
>>First clam down. Nothing happened and happens.
>>
>>
>>>I haven't changed basically anything in the config file ever, I only used to
>>>sign in
>>>(not authenticated) with my WikiUserName and it was lasting for the session.
>>>Now,  at every page loaded next to sign in button says:
>>>" You are signed but not authenticated as root"
>>
>>That means, that you stored a cookie with WIKI_ID=root.
>>You probably signed in once as user "root".
>>To get rid of this informative message just sign as a user.
> 
> 
> Signing in with a different user name as been my first attempt, tried
> it many times, I even have my PersonalPage, it let me sign in, but
> the next time it loads a new page it has "root" again!!
> That's why I'm nervous... and I can't understand why it happens!

So your sessions are not stored (or loaded), and just the WIKI_ID=root 
cookie is loaded. Investigate why your sessions don't work.

You might want to delete this cookie in question also if the name "root" 
troubles you. But this has nothing to do with the unix user root.

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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/