[Koha] Question about values for create_surperlibrian.pl

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Christos,

maybe it would be easiest to start with a new instance.

Usually it works like Jonathan described. The initial login into the web
installer is done with the password found in koha-conf.xml. There you
create the user to use Koha with in the 'onboarding' process.

Katrin

On 28.11.19 18:05, Christos Hayward wrote:
> P.S.
>
> I tried those things and failed to ever log in before asking the list. I
> genuinely do not understand how to get an
> /etc/koha/sites/catalog/koha-conf.xml and/or
> /etc/koha/sites/catalog/zebra.passwd and log in after either obtaining or
> setting a username and password.
>
> Can you help me pass this hurdle?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 9:17 AM Christos Hayward <christos.hayward at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I already tried manually setting username and password in
>> /etc/koha/sites/catalog/koha-conf.xml, and have not yet been able to log in
>> either with credentials in the koha-conf.xml or zebra.passwd.
>>
>> Is it wrong to manually change the credentials? Are there ways I might not
>> be able to log in when I used credentials from those files? At present they
>> all specify a user of kohauser and a password I set manually.
>>
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM Jonathan Druart <
>> jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Forget about that script, you should not need it.
>>>
>>> Either you went through the web installer process and you created a
>>> library, patron's category and user, or you are seeing the login form
>>> to start the installation, and so you will find the credential in your
>>> $KOHA_CONF file, which should point to
>>> /etc/koha/sites/<KOHA_INSTANCE>/koha-conf.xml
>>>
>>> The following 2 commands will return user and password:
>>> sudo xmlstarlet sel -t -v '/yazgfs/config/user' $KOHA_CONF
>>> sudo xmlstarlet sel -t -v '/yazgfs/config/pass' $KOHA_CONF
>>>
>>> Le jeu. 28 nov. 2019 à 15:20, Christos Hayward
>>> <christos.hayward at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>> Where are values for branches.branchcode or categories.categorycode
>>> available? An ack(-grep) in /etc/koha for branches, branchcode, and
>>> categorycode did not turn up information scent.
>>>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 2:38 AM Jonathan Druart <
>>> jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hello Christos,
>>>>>
>>>>> After you installed Koha via the debian packages you should see the
>>>>> webinstaller. At the end of the install process there is a tool that
>>>>> will guide you through different steps to create a library, a patron's
>>>>> category, and a superlibrarian user.
>>>>> If you have not done the installation it does not make sense to create
>>> an user.
>>>>> branchcode is one value from branches.branchcode, categorycode from
>>>>> categories.categorycode
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le jeu. 28 nov. 2019 à 00:33, Christos Hayward
>>>>> <christos.hayward at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>>>> For a new installation, does the following make sense?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> create_superlibrarian.pl --userid ________ --password ________
>>> --branchcode
>>>>>> main --categorycode main --cardnumber 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If some or all of the --branchcode, --categorycode, or --cardnumber
>>> values
>>>>>> are not what a beginner wants, what should I be supplying?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (Or how can I found out what I should be supplying?)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Christos Hayward
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Christos Hayward
>>
>> --
>> Christos Hayward
>>
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