I am using the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 bits provided by VPS.net
It has a root account and you can only login into it using the root
account, until you create another account.
Perhaps this is the *root* or of the problem.
Massimo
On Apr 30, 9:37 pm, Álvaro Justen <alv...@justen.eng.br> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 23:22, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> > I have the following problem. On ubuntu.
>
> >>>> from gluon.contrib.pam import authenticate
> >>>> authenticate('username','password')
>
> > it works for every 'username' except for 'root'. This prevents me from
> > setting up the root password as default admin password.
>
> > It is not a web2py issue, nor a gluon.contrib.pam issue. It is a pam
> > configuration issue. It is not even a bug, it is done for security
> > reasons. Yet I want to check the 'root' password using the pam.py api
> > so that I can build a default web2py-ready-vps image.
>
> > Any idea how to make it work for 'root'?
>
> On Ubuntu root does not have a password set. The user that installed
> the system (the first usem created, UID = 1000) has sudo power.
> This user can do execute "sudo passwd" and change (create) the root
> password, but the default is to root don't have a password. So I think
> the default could be admin password = password of the user that is
> running web2py (if the user is root and the developer used sudo python
> web2py.py in Ubuntu, so we have a problem).
>
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