Yes, Andrew's response is spot on.  Note, though, that this admin user is intended to be used
for initial setup and potentially for access if there are failures in authorization/authentication
for you other users.  It is a special koha user, and should not be used for circulation
and normal tasks.  Use it to set up privileged users, then log in as your privileged
user.  Many tasks/actions in Koha require a 'real' Koha user to properly track or log
the action.


Ryan Higgins  

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Seguin" <asegu@borgtech.ca>
To: "Michael' 'Chartrand" <MCHARTRAND@shsny.com>, koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 12:58:59 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: RE: [Koha] Changing Koha Master Password

Hello Michael,

 

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.

 

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'); “);

 

Hope that helps,

Andrew

 

 

From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Chartrand, Michael
Sent: May 11, 2007 2:38 PM
To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: [Koha] Changing Koha Master Password

 

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, we got server errors.  Any ideas?