Thanks, in my haste I had failed to single quote the input. And changing the password allowed me to get away without doing so. Obviously PEBKAC though, and not a bug.
Apologies On Friday, November 7, 2014 1:19:53 AM UTC-8, Jochen Schalanda wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I just tried to reproduce this bug in Graylog2 but without success. > > If you've used the shell to generate the SHA256 sum of your admin > password, please make sure to properly escape the input. > > Example: > > $ echo -n 'my$password' | shasum -a 256 > 63b9a3f67f9d896dd7f52fdeb283fab2aa2d692521673bd6caf0bf04c2a842d2 - > > Without the single quotes around the password, the shell would try to > interpolate the string with the environment variable *$password* and the > resulting hash would be for the string "my" (because there usually is no > such environment variable). > > > Now I get to go back and change it in mongo and other places :-( >> > > The password for the authentication against MongoDB is not related to the > admin password of Graylog2 and you usually should use different credentials > for these things. > > > Cheers, > Jochne > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "graylog2" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
