John R Pierce wrote:
>>> IIRC, when you first install it, you register a new account and this
>>> account #1 becomes the 'webmaster' account with master privileges. I
>>> often call it webmaster.
>> But as I mentioned, I installed drupal by "sudo yum install drupal",
>> and was never asked to register an account.
>> I'll see if I can deduce from the MySQL database
>> what name and email address have been assigned.
> no, I mean from the web interface.... go to that default webpage, and
> use the 'create new account' function thats there. the first account
> thats created is user #1, and is the drupal equivalent of a superuser.
I found in the end the bizarre cause of my problem.
When I looked at the MySQL table drupal.users
(my Drupal database is called drupal)
I found that I was entered as user #2,
a strange alien being entered as user #1,
and so I presume the administrator.
I take it some hacker has a program that looks for drupal sites,
and managed to get in between the time I installed drupal
and the time I logged in.
(Only a couple of minutes, as I recall.)
I tried deleting this user, and moving myself up,
but apparently it was too late.
I kicked myself for not making a note of the intruder,
or the email address they gave.
In any case, when I yum-deleted drupal,
and deleted the drupal databse,
and started again, it all worked fine.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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