Troubleshooting

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I forgot my password! How can I get it back?

Schlabo's Scripts use a strong encryption-algorithm, decrypting your password would take several years. So if you really forgot your password, you'll have to reset the users and create a new one.

Download config.pl, open it in a text-editor, scroll down to the bottom and change the corresponding lines to:

@user_names = ("");
@user_passwords = ("");
@user_access_g = ("on");
@user_access_p = ("on");
@user_access_d = ("on");
@user_access_s = ("on");
@user_access_c = ("on");

Now you have to tell the scripts to crypt the empty password and create a default user. To do that call admin.pl like that:

http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/schlabo/admin.pl?action=firsttime_user

The scripts will check if there is no user and will generate a default user without password and username. After that you can log in, go to the user management, edit the empty user to give it a username and password again.

This procedure may sound complicated, but it can be done in a few minutes. That's the price of high security-standards.