login security settings

[chriscullen_uk]

Hope I can get an answer here. Using v1.3 without prob on a hosted site. For some reason middle of this month unable to login to site as admin or as other user using variety of browsers. Used phpmyadmin to browse users table but unable to run update sql query to reset admin password. Tech support were however able to reset admin password using update query I supplied and browsing the table can see the hask key has been altered to reflect thye change. However still no joy and unable to login. Hoping to do this so I can reset the editor users password to allow her to edit content. Web site held on a web server with database stored on mysql server - any thoughts?

[replytomk3]

Check config.php. Try to install database backup on your personal computer's localhost.

[alby]

Hope I can get an answer here. Using v1.3 without prob on a hosted site. For some reason middle of this month unable to login to site as admin or as other user using variety of browsers. Used phpmyadmin to browse users table but unable to run update sql query to reset admin password. Tech support were however able to reset admin password using update query I supplied and browsing the table can see the hask key has been altered to reflect thye change. However still no joy and unable to login. Hoping to do this so I can reset the editor users password to allow her to edit content. Web site held on a web server with database stored on mysql server - any thoughts?

Try to enable debug in config.php and look in error server logs too for more informations.
I think that your provider has changed something in configuration (in php upgrade?)

Alby

[tyman00]

You may also want to try making a backup of all your site files and your database. Then upgrade to version 1.6. It may solve your problem and it has additional security features in the admin for your safety. Technically we only provide support to the latest two releases which means we should really only support 1.6 and 1.5.4.

[chriscullen_uk]

Problem sorted! Thanks for all the replies and advice. I suspected a change to the servers settings possibly in the area of a server side PHP session problem - however problem sorted this evening without my intervention. Logins now work fine. At same time I received email from hosting company regarding world and group writeable permissions and changes made to derver - too much to be a coincidence I think