This issue seems to now be fixed. I'm not entirely sure how, or indeed if it will last but while I hold my breath I thought I'd just post this before people spent time trying to help :)
Thanks, Vince On 24 September 2013 23:48, Vincent Knight <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply John, that's very helpful (I've checked that out on > my local install and it's very straightforward). > > Slight problem though is that it seems that we have setup our Sage server > in such a way as that we can't login as admin (the process of getting the > Sage server up and running has been a long and trickey one sadly). When I > put in the login details for the admin account the browser returns a server > error (with a blank page). It doesn't look like we can actually log in. > > The IT guy who is working on this with (who knows far more about servers > than I do) thinks that this might have something to do with the version of > Python we're running on our red hat vm (red hat wasn't my choice). We have > Python 2.4.3 running but I don't see why that would be the problem (I hope > that that is the issue as it would be an easy fix). I realise I'm not > really giving much details as to the problem but I'm more than happy to if > anyone has an idea as to why this might be happening... > > Obviously getting the admin account up and running is quite important > giving that we will no doubt have quite a few students forgetting their > passwords... > > Thanks to anyone who can offer any advice, > Vince > > > On 24 September 2013 20:47, John Cremona <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good luck, and please post to tell others how it goes. >> >> Log in as admin, click on "Settings" and then "Manage Users" to see a >> list of accounts. There's an option to rest a password there for each >> user. >> >> John >> >> On 24 September 2013 11:25, Vince <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > We have recently (despite my incompetence) got a sage server up and >> running >> > and I'm really excited about teaching it to all 170 of our first years. >> > >> > Preempting what I expect will be a common problem in the upcoming >> weeks, I >> > don't seem to be able to find any information about the process to >> > recover/change a forgotten password for a user. I'm sure it's somewhere >> and >> > someone will point me to the obvious search but I can't seem to find >> it. If >> > anyone could point me in the right direction that would be much >> appreciated >> > (I can see all the users.pickle file and assume that is perhaps a sage >> > object but don't know how/what to do with that). >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Vince >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "sage-support" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Dr Vincent Knight > Cardiff School of Mathematics > Senghennydd Road, > Cardiff > CF24 4AG > (+44) 29 2087 5548 > www.vincent-knight.com > +Vincent Knight > @drvinceknight > Skype: drvinceknight > -- Dr Vincent Knight Cardiff School of Mathematics Senghennydd Road, Cardiff CF24 4AG (+44) 29 2087 5548 www.vincent-knight.com +Vincent Knight @drvinceknight Skype: drvinceknight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
