netreg-users: Installing netreg from CVS

[David Nolan]

--On Thursday, February 23, 2006 18:22:28 +0000 Peter Bates 
<Peter.Bates at lshtm.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> The cvs update worked fine, but now I'm getting:
>
> [Thu Feb 23 18:10:01 2006] netreg.pl: DBI
> connect('netdb:localhost','netreg-web',...) failed: Access denied for
> user: 'netreg-web at localhost' (Using password: YES) at
> /home/netreg/lib/CMU/WebInt/helper.pm line 136
>
> ... did some part of the install somehow mangle my passwords?
>

Does the file /home/netreg/etc/.password still exist, and is it readable by 
your apache process?  There should also be a .password-maint used by the 
scheduler, among other things.

>
> Shall I scrap it all again and start afresh? :)

Should not be necessary, just some bits probably got scribbled over.


-David Nolan
 Network Software Designer
 Computing Services
 Carnegie Mellon University