Comments on: Accessing Drupal's Login Page After You Have Already Disabled The User Login Block

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:47:58 +0000

@Jenny That does seem pretty odd. Once you log in, try changing the password through the Drupal admin itself before doing anything else. If you already tried that, perhaps there is a module interfering?

I know the SMFforum module has caused problems for some people. From your first post, it sounds like this was a straight install but assuming it’s not maybe disabling more exotic modules might help.

Sorry if that sounds like a bit of a dodge. Not really sure what might cause the password to revert like that, especially if you changed it in the database by hand. You might want to post the question on the Drupal forum.

Also for those reading the thread, the SQL to update the password manually is:

UPDATE users SET pass = MD5(’new password’) WHERE uid = 1;

Obviously, you replace ‘new password’ with the password of your choice.

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:32:13 +0000

Hmmmm…it worked and then reverted. So I was able to edit and sign into my site as admin, and then when it kept requesting me to sign in again and again I went back to the database and the password was reset to the default. Everytime I try to change it again it just reverts back. Seems strange.

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:34:08 +0000

O, thank you soooooooooooooooooo much. Wow, I really appreciate it.

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:17:21 +0000

Hi, Jenny.

If you have database access, you can reset the password manually. The link below has a good discussion of how to do it.

http://drupal.org/node/32650

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:14:11 +0000

Hi, I just got drupal installed, and it is not allowing me to login as administrator. So basically, I am locked out of my own site. When I request a new password it still does not work, and I get the Page Not Found error. Help!

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:58:21 +0000

Hi, Chris.

If you have clean URLs enabled, you can use:

http://www.somesite.com/user

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:43:36 +0000

This doesn’t seem to work if you have short URLs enabled. You’ll just get the generic “Page Not Found” error.

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:46:49 +0000

Non c’è di che, Elisa!

By: elisa

elisa — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:15:23 +0000

thank you very much!!!!!!

By: felix

felix — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:41:43 +0000

Thank you for this tip.