OK checked my DB and set the author PW field to encrypt - now it works. Not sure how it got messed up in the first place but I can log in now.

Will now carry on with customizing 1.5.5. And will definitely look for a PW reset module for sy9, hope one is available...

There seems to be some encryption problems. I ran the "test.php" and it's giving me some long encrypted string as the expected password.

After my first installation problems, I did change my database password in "serendipity_authors" - changed it from one that was encrypted to a readable password ...

Garvin: I restored my old site, and then followed directions to upgrade. Didn't get any error messages, everything checked out ok. Ran the brief sql script as instructed in the upgrade and got a message that everything was fine.

Once completed I tried to log in - still got rejected. Downloaded the ...

Thanks for the info Garvin. I will try and restore the files and DB and start over.

I am aware of this, one is for PHP query requesting DB permissions, the other is for sy9 admin.
But if I have the same user/pass combos for both, I would think it's a moot point.

This was an install to upgrade to the latest version - 1.5.5. I upgraded this way: collected the old website files into ...

Installed newest version of Serendipity (1.5.5) and can't log in to admin.

I've been through this forum and looked over the issues...
Yes I have deleted the config_local.inc file and started over. After the second attempt, looked at the user/pass combo in that file and it is identical to what I ...