Locked out by inadvertently enabling user authentication

ceidoimotani · Post by **ceidoimotani** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:15 pm

Hi,

Please laugh hard .. I deserve it ... but once you cooled down, please help me get out of this little mess I created.

I've a small ZM installation (5 cameras on two Pico2000 cards, Ubuntu 8.04 desktop running on a P4 / 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM). I enabled the user authentication in the options page, then - of course! - restarted ZM without first checking if I have some user logins and passwords on ZM, I just assumed that a Linux user would do. Guess what .. it wouldn't do... so now my server runs fine, but ZM won't talk to me anymore, I'm a stranger.

Is there a way to reset this setting outside the admin console so I can get back to it and create some ZM users (the proper way) before reenabling user authentication? Any ideas would be appreciated - even if you'll say there's no other way but to wipe out the db and reinstall ZM.

Thank you!

ceidoimotani · Post by **ceidoimotani** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:13 pm

Thank you, Google! According to the document below, ZM comes with a default user (admin) which has the same password (admin). So I'm out of the woods now, but I wanted to mention it so others won't see themselves in this embarrassing situation.

http://www.zoneminder.com/fileadmin/dow ... nstall.doc

Thanks again!