Unable to login as admin user

Sven Oostenbrink — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:10:39 -0000

Hi there,

Im having a very weird problem with admin login (or
author login). sorry if this is a rather unofficial bug
repport, but I dont do this often. =)

the thing is, I CANT login under admin. user/pass
admin/phpwebsite (yes, that is a password, but its
public anyways) does not work. I tried it at my home
computer, nothing, work computer, nothing, a friend tried
it, nothing.. I simply can not login as admin.

Then, I tried to tweak the author database a little. I
changed the name/pass for admin/admin (pass
obviously coded with the MD5 function) but that didnt
work either, even though the user/pass really was admin
admin..

I tried to put user/pass with plain text in the database,
and ripped out all md5 functions in all scripts, didnt work
either.

so something is obviously wrong. Now the weird part..
yesterday, at my work I just tried again, for fun (clean
install, no modifications to scripts) to login with
admin/phpwebsite and.. it worked!!! then I used Edit
Admins in the admins menu to change the password for
admin user, and ever since I can login at my work!! but I
still cant at home. I really dont understand any of this.

you guys have ANY idea what is wrong here? I dont
have that much experience with PHP yet so its kinda
difficult for me to go through all the code yet..

some extra info:
my home compu is winXP pro platform, tried PHPDEV
4.23 and 5, work compu is Win2000 pro platform, tried
4.23 and 5, and my friend has XP pro as well, tried 4.23
and 5 as well.

thanks in advance,

Sven Oostenbrink

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