Hi,
I am new to php, MySQL and Piwigo. I have a site hosted by Dreamhost. I downloaded Piwigo last night and successfully uploaded photos. When I tried to log in today, my access was denied. I clicked the "Forgot Password" link on Piwigo and entered my email but never received an email. I registered a new user and never received an email on that new email address. I finally went to my SQL database and through phpmyadmin. My password showed up as something like "$P$G8wGKSqfQje3TEGGjPSlbR2w59I1PV0" when I had originally made my password something much, much easier!! I tried to reset my password directly through phpmyadmin. So far, nothing is working. I can see the Piwigo site but since I made all of the photo private (for now) I can't see the photos because I cannot log into Piwigo as the administrator. What can I do?
Here's everything I know:
Piwigo version: 2.7.4
PHP version: Not sure?
MySQL version: 4.6.4
Piwigo URL: http://winkandsmirk.com/photos/
Hello
You can search on the forum [Forum, post 162792 by ddtddt in topic 26475] Can't login to my Piwigo then fix your email config issue with the help of your hosting
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Hi,
Thanks for the link. But I don't know what is meant by "md5" function. Would you mind providing some further instruction for a newbie? I have contacted my host as well. Thanks.
Ok. I figured out where/how to set the Md5 function. But in my SQL database (going through PHP admin), I have reset the passwords for all of my users. None of them are the 32 digit monstrosities and none of them will log me into Piwigo. Please help.
What are you trying to do exactly?
And FYI storing unencrypted passwords is a severe and basic security flaw
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Nevermind. I have figured it out now through trial and error (or flaws, I suppose). I am not storing unencrypted passwords. I was simply trying to figure out how all of this works. All I wanted to do was to log in to Piwigo as the administrator but the log in screen would not accept my password, of which I was 100% certain. I would type my user name and password and it would tell me the password was "invalid" every time (and from what I can tell on this forum, I am not the only person who has ever had this issue - but the resolutions might as well have been in another language to me). I have figured it out now. As I said, I am new to all of this and a lot of the advice on this forum is beyond my basic knowledge at this point. I didn't know what the Md5 function was, much less how it worked (or what purpose it served). It is helpful, to someone like me, if the answer is provided in step-by-step instructions with some actual explanations. But maybe my knowledge is too basic for this forum. If so, I apologize if I have wasted anyone's time. In the interim, I have "Googled" and found the step-by-step instructions and explanations I needed. Now I have successfully logged in to Piwigo as the administrator. Thanks for at least getting me started with the Md5 reference.
Unfortunately, I'm now having the same problem. I'm able to login as a normal user, but no longer able to login with my admin password that I too am 100% confident is correct. Could you please post what you learned Googling the issue and/or post a link that describes how to fix the problem. Thanks
flop25 wrote:
Hello
You can search on the forum [Forum, post 162792 by ddtddt in topic 26475] Can't login to my Piwigo [...]
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