Newbie Emergency #1: "I'm locked out!"

Submitted by Drupalace on Sun, 2007-07-01 22:43

If you log out without having set up a convenient login block to let you back in... you're locked out! Right?

Fortunately, there's an easy way back in: <your domain>/user (as in, www.yoursite.com/user) will always provide you a login form. (A site that doesn't have "clean URLs" enabled needs to use <your domain>/?q=user instead; try that if the above doesn't work.)

Yep, I've done the Locked-Out Panic. So have countless others; it's THE emergency de rigeur among Drupal initiates. Get a Drupal tattoo to mark the rite of passage, then log in and carry on!

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How to login once you have turned your site off-line for maintenance

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Unknown Drupaloid's picture

It does not work! Help ... please !?

Submitted by Unknown Drupaloid (not verified) on Fri, 2010-02-12 17:39.

I was so happy I've found this page but... I've tried it and it does not work...

If someone reads this... please HELP !

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Same here

Submitted by Dean Flory (not verified) on Wed, 2011-01-26 09:00.

I was having some issues with modules not wanting to uninstall, general weirdness so I'd cleared caches and ran all the crons and updates and all of that to no avail. So I thought, I'll just log out and log back in to see if that helps since I've been on this for days.

Well, my root password is no longer accepted. Stupid. Something is not right here and I'm constantly annoyed at all the extra effort Drupal developers (web site developers) have to expend when there should be effort on the Drupal and module developer end to make sure things like this don't happen.

I'm going to keep searching for answers and I'm going to be pissed if I have to dump EVERYTHING and start over, simply not acceptable.

Drupalace's picture

Root password doesn't work??

Submitted by Drupalace on Sat, 2011-01-29 01:48.

Really? I fortunately haven't had that happen to me, and have no remedy from experience... All I can suggest is that, as long as you're willing and able to get into the guts of the site's mysql database, fixes for emergencies like this should be possible.

Perhaps a database procedure for resetting the password, like the below, would work?

http://community.contractwebdevelopment.com/how-reset-drupal-admin-password

(Agreed: Fixed or not, I'd still be angry at the need to do so, if Drupal were responsible for the glitch... which may or may not be your case; naturally, I can't say!)

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