On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 23:22, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > I have the following problem. On ubuntu. > >>>> from gluon.contrib.pam import authenticate >>>> authenticate('username','password') > > it works for every 'username' except for 'root'. This prevents me from > setting up the root password as default admin password. > > It is not a web2py issue, nor a gluon.contrib.pam issue. It is a pam > configuration issue. It is not even a bug, it is done for security > reasons. Yet I want to check the 'root' password using the pam.py api > so that I can build a default web2py-ready-vps image. > > Any idea how to make it work for 'root'?
On Ubuntu root does not have a password set. The user that installed the system (the first usem created, UID = 1000) has sudo power. This user can do execute "sudo passwd" and change (create) the root password, but the default is to root don't have a password. So I think the default could be admin password = password of the user that is running web2py (if the user is root and the developer used sudo python web2py.py in Ubuntu, so we have a problem). -- Álvaro Justen - Turicas http://blog.justen.eng.br/ 21 9898-0141
