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On Dec 21, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Stacy Dunkle wrote:
Greetings all,
I've apparently locked my admin user out of the administration pages of individual FP domains. I think I may have done this on purpose at first, mistakenly thinking it was a good thing at the time to add the ftp username for each domain as the sole admin of that particular domain, deleting my admin account in the list of users for that particular FP web. Or I may have mistakenly thought that my main admin user would have had admin access to any of the webs anyway, without the admin username being on the list of users for that web. It's been a while since I've set a new domain up on the machine, and just noticed something was up today while I was installing FP extensions for another domain.
Is there a way to manually add myself back, by editing a certain file on the server with vi? My main admin user for the server can still install/uninstall the FP extensions for each domain, and configure certain options for each as well (mail servers, etc), I just can't reach the each domain's main admin page.
I'll try to help... via vi you might try touching $DOCROOT/_vti_pvt/service.pwd. But I believe this is a "hashed" password value. I don't know the hashing routine though, MD5, SHA, or other. :( So just adding yourself to this list might not work. The other option is to escalate a regular user to admin via touching $DOCROOT/_vti_pvt/service.grp. This is file has a format like this:
1 # -FrontPage-
2 administrators: admin
3 authors: author
n ...Finally, try the command line tool to re-add your administrator. Joshua's website has some very helpful examples at the very bottom that helped me.
http://www.jnux.net/community/apachefp//install.htm
Also, I was wondering how other people set up their FrontPage Extensions for customers/clients/etc. For example, do you give the main author of the site the full admin rights to that particular domain, along with yourself? Or, do you set yourself as the only one with the "Administrator" role, with the main author of the site/domain as "Advanced author"? If one were to do it that way, would it be unfairly limiting the domain owner's control of the site, or is it just about right? Do you give out the URL for the web-based management page for the site, or can the clients do anything they need from the FP editor?
My 2cents. Unless your a host with a hands off approach, I would limit administrative access to you and you alone. Administrators can futz FPSE in other domains. Not good. This may be tightened, but I think it requires IP virtual hosting and can't be restricted very well otherwise. At least in the set up I have. YMMV and some of the more experienced admins might speak up on this subject.
-Stace
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