You can try [1] to temporarily disable all security and then try to
reset the passwords.

[1] http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/WIKI/Messed+Up+Security

HTH,
Jan

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:05 +0100, Sebastian Schuon wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> thanks for all the suggestions! Your pointer to re-building the index
> was a good one, since an initial error "can't find user anonymous" was
> resolved, but I still can't login :( Even copying a working instance
> from another system didn't help.
> On how to reset the superuser password, I guess you refer to the
> following document: http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/WIKI/Reset
> +all+passwords . Only thing I don't see is how to ever execute the
> JSP, since for the author space, all JSPs need prior authentication,
> which I am lacking...
> Any suggestions are highly appreciated!
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
> 
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jan Haderka
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:07 +0100, Sebastian Schuon wrote:
>         > Hi Jan,
>         > thanks for your quick reply. I suspect indexes being
>         "repositories
>         > \magnolia\workspaces\*\index" right? I've deleted them and
>         they get
>         
>         
>         yes that's what I meant.
>         
>         >  rebuild, but no luck logging in... do you have any other
>         suggestion?
>         
>         
>         hmm, that is strange. I have had a problem few times and
>         re-indexing
>         always made it go away (the issue is caused by the fact that
>         indexes are
>         generated asynchronously and do not stop the shutdown, so
>         after the
>         restore they might not be finished yet when the main restore
>         thread
>         already initiated shutdown).
>         
>         The other things we can look for:
>         - were there any errors in the log files from startup?
>         - any errors during the restore?
>         
>         you might want to post your log files to pastebin.com or
>         similar service
>         and post the links to them here so we can have a look.
>         
>         ... more thoughts:
>         - the DB schema into which you restored the instance was clean
>         right?
>         - the restore was made into exactly same version of Magnolia
>         as the one
>         in which the backup was made?
>         
>         - if nothing else helps, you might want to follow the guide on
>         wiki on
>         how to reset superuser password.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Jan
>         
>         
>         > Thanks,
>         > Sebastian
>         >
>         > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jan Haderka
>         > <[email protected]> wrote:
>         >
>         >         Shutdown, delete indexes from all workspaces, and
>         startup
>         >         again. Should
>         >         be ok then.
>         >         HTH,
>         >         Jan
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >         On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:29 +0100, Sebastian Schuon
>         wrote:
>         >         > Hi all,
>         >         > I use mysql as a repository to magnolia. Now I
>         tried to
>         >         update an
>         >         > older installation by simply updating the
>         database. I am now
>         >         puzzled,
>         >         > that I can't login anymore. Since I can login into
>         the newer
>         >         > installation, I am quite positive that the
>         password is
>         >         correct. Can
>         >         > anyone give me pointers what debug output might
>         help?
>         >         > Best,
>         >         > Sebastian
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
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