Brilliant, thanks. Very easy, and it works! Sorry I did not find that myself.... the Manage Users facility looks excellent!
John On Dec 8, 4:39 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:47 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is it possible to reset the password of a use who has created an > > account but forgotten her password? > > > When I looked at the docstring of notebook() I found it rather > > confusing: especially this part: > > > accounts -- (default: False) if True, any visitor to > > the > > website will be able to create a new > > account. If > > False, only the admin can create accounts > > (currently, this can only be done by > > running with > > accounts=True for a few minutes, or on > > the command > > line with, e.g., > > nb = load('./sage/sage_notebook/ > > nb.sobj') > > nb.set_accounts(True) > > nb.add_user("username", "password", > > "em...@place", "user") > > nb.save() > > > The first line "nb = ..." fails. I think there's a typo at the start > > (it should surely start .sage) but after that, in my .sage directory > > there is no subdirectory sage_notebook, only one called > > sage_notebook.sagenb (and another called just "notebook"), which does > > not contain any .sobj files. Instead it contains a file users.pickle > > which seems to contain the user account data. But trying > > That is all hopelessly out of date -- there are no sobj's in the > notebook anymore. To reset user passwords just login as admin, click > on Settings at the top of the page, and click on "Manage Users" and > the rest is really easy. > > Fixing the docs about this is now the (easy) trac 7624: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7624 > > William -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org