[Koha] Question about values for create_surperlibrian.pl

[Katrin Fischer]

The right user and pass combination is in the <config> section with the
db_scheme and database name. I think you might be looking in the wrong spot.

If you haven't run the web installer yet, there will be no tables in
your database and creating a user won't work.

Katrin

On 28.11.19 18:37, Christos Hayward wrote:
> P.S. A *find / -name koha-conf.xml* only turns up */root/koha-conf.xml* (a
> backup copy I made before fiddling with the files), and a *<serverinfo
> id="biblioserver">* tag which contains populated *<ccel2rpn>*,*<user>*, and
> *<password>* tags, alongside similar tags for an "*authorityserver*" ID and
> a commented out *PUBLICSERVER* entry. I tried the default value, my own
> specified values, and the password provided by *koha-passwd catalog*
> (should I drop a trailing "@"?).
>
> There seems to be some disconnect in my installation as I essentially
> tried this, that, and the other and have never managed to log in.`
>
> Maybe I should go back to trying to find data (from MariaDB data?) to
> create a (possibly additional) superlibrarian?
>
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:05 AM Christos Hayward <
> christos.hayward at gmail.com> 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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>>>>>>> Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Christos Hayward
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christos Hayward
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Christos Hayward
>>
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