login problem

[cecilon]

Hi everyone,

My serendipity blog had just been created. Today I wanted to personalise it and login as administrator. The second time I tried to login I had a message telling me that I was using the wrong user name or/and wrong password.
But I know that it's the good one.
I'm working on Mac using safari.
Please can somebody help me or do I have to download serendipity again?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

If you're familiar with phpMyAdmin, you could chcek out the database, serendipity_authors table and see if the username there matches the name you enter? And you can reset the password there, using the "MD5" function dropdown.

The other option is to re-install serendipity, yes. You need to drop all databsae tables, remove the file 'serendipity_config_local.inc.php' and then you can reinstall.

HTH,
Garvin

[cecilon]

Hello Gavin,

Thanks for your help but I can't seem to find what I wrote. Here is what I have on my screen:
-------------------------------------------------- Null
username, varchar(20), latin1_general_ci, Yes, NULL
password, varchar(32), latin1_general_ci, Yes, NULL

What do I have to change in that?
Moreover I can't seem to find the MD5 function as my phpMYAdmin is in french it might be named something else?
Thanks for your help,

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I'm sorry, but I can't find the time to give phpMyAdmin support here. You might want to check the phpMYAdmin.net page/documentation to see it. The short version: You need to browse the rows and then edit a row, then you see a MD5 function dropdown.

HTH,
Garvin