Posted by databell on August 25, 2009 at 3:33am
I'm currently working with a tech firm in Dallas on a Drupal setup. Their first so they don't completely know what they're doing. We finally got the install working so I went in to set me up as a user on the site. Clicked the Create New Account button, submitted my username and email address and never received an email confirmation with my password. Not good. I checked PHPmyAdmin and sure enough, my username is setup with an encrypted password but that doesn't help me since it's encrypted. How can I get my email confirmation. Is it some kind of permission they need to do on their end to make this all work?
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To get your password reset,
To get your password reset, go to
www.yoursite.com/user/password
if you didn't get the email perhaps php can't send mail. If you're on linux sendmail is great.
You might try installing acquia drupal. The installation is a little more user friendly than the general Drupal install.
John Arroyo | www.arroyolabs.com | www.johnarroyo.com
Reset your password in the user table
If you have access to PHPmyAdmin, go to the user table and browse the records. Edit your user record, in the pass field select MD5 under the function drop down, delete the hash and add your new password.
That was it, Ishmeal! Just
That was it, Ishmeal! Just went into PHPmyAdmin and did the reset. Thanks so much!
Still one problem....
Now I can login, but I can't go to the admin section. Drupal says:
Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page.
So how do I change that?
Permissions
I'm guessing since they just added you as a user they didn't give you any permissions. That is why you can login but can't visit the admin section. You need your firm to create a role and give you more that just the basic permissions given to an authenticated user.