<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000}</style></head><body><font size="2"><br>Yes, Andrew's response is spot on. Note, though, that this admin user is intended to be used<br>for initial setup and potentially for access if there are failures in authorization/authentication<br>for you other users. It is a special koha user, and should not be used for circulation<br>and normal tasks. Use it to set up privileged users, then log in as your privileged <br>user. Many tasks/actions in Koha require a 'real' Koha user to properly track or log<br>the action.<br><br><br>Ryan Higgins <br><br>----LibLime----------------------------------<br>Providing Open-Source Solutions for Libraries<br>Migration, Training, Maintenance and Support<br>Featuring Koha ILS : <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT760"><a target="_blank" href="http://liblime.com/koha">http://liblime.com/koha</a></span><br>---------------------------------------------<br><br><br></font><font size="2">----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Andrew Seguin" <asegu@borgtech.ca><br>To: "Michael' 'Chartrand" <MCHARTRAND@shsny.com>, koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 12:58:59 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York<br>Subject: RE: [Koha] Changing Koha Master Password<br></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hello Michael,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Although rather new to Koha myself, I have
understood that the “master” Koha user is none other then the user
(& password) with witch Koha connects to MySQL.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">If you want to change it, you should
change it both in the configuration file, and then in mysql (for example “
SET PASSWORD FOR 'user'@'hostname' = PASSWORD('passwordhere'); “);</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hope that helps,</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Andrew</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Chartrand, Michael<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> May 11, 2007 2:38 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Koha] Changing Koha
Master Password</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial;">My IT person is trying to set up Koha 2.2.8 for Windows on
Windows XP SP2. The installation of Koha and Apache, MySQL, etc. looks
good and Koha comes up just fine. My question is: How to you change
the master koha login/password combination from koha, koha? He
found the file with the login=koha and password=koha but we were unable to
change them. After the changed file was saved, when we tried to log in,
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