On Dec 30, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Christopher Steel wrote: > > you could "become" the www-data user with > su www-data > change to /home/www-data/web2py > and then run the commands: > > python -c "from gluon.widget import console; console();" > > and > > python -c "from gluon.main import save_password; > save_password(raw_input('admin password: '),443)" > echo "done!" > > In the mean time I am going to try it myself... looks like fun.
I keep forgetting you can reach inside and do this stuff. Yes, the second command, at least, works very nicely. I don't quite follow what the console() run is intended to do, though. The script could use one or two more comments.