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cgacfox 
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Posted: 04 February 2012 at 6:33pm |
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I created a forum for guild members of an online game that I used to play. I have stopped playing and have not touched the forum in ages. The owner of the website is letting it go but I thought I would move the forum to my business site so that members could still keep in touch. However, when I go to logon as admin, my password is not working. Where in the DB is this information kept so that I can change this or see what it should be? Thanks.
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Scotty32
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Posted: 04 February 2012 at 8:00pm |
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Can you not use the "i forgot my password" feature? That would be the easiest.
Also the passwords are encrypted, this is done via a "one way" encryption so you will not be able to decrypt it.
If you have direct access to the database, you could create a new account - use the password and salt from that to replace your old accounts details.
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Posted: 04 February 2012 at 8:35pm |
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Thanks Scotty. I have always had trouble with the email part of the forum. I tried to use the forgot password but ended up getting an error so not sure where I went wrong. If I could access the admin panel again, I would fix it. Since I first set it up, I have upgraded to Windows 7 as a clean install so all that information was lost. I did download the forum and DB to my computer but at the present time don't run IIS. This will be fun trying to figure out how I can access it again.
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Posted: 05 February 2012 at 12:17am |
Every time I try to logon because I believe I know my password I get this error message -
Server Error in Forum Application
An error has occured while writing to the database.
Please contact the forum administrator.
Support Error Code:- err_Access_loginUser()_update_login_attempts
File Name:- functions_login.asp
Error details:-
Microsoft JET Database Engine
Cannot update. Database or object is read-only.
As I stated earlier I have not logged on to the forum for quite a while so not sure what is going on. I host at godaddy.com and have the IIS6 Windows package. The version I am running is I think 8. Any ideas?
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Posted: 05 February 2012 at 1:57pm |
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Are you using Access as your database?
If so, the error you posted above seems to relate to the Database being "read only", you would need to set the permissions on the access file to write for the IIS user.
Also, Is this running on a local computer or web hosting server?
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Posted: 05 February 2012 at 3:57pm |
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Access is the DB and it is hosted with godaddy. It was working just fine before but I believe they changed servers on me so maybe that is what messed it up.Seems strange that if they moved servers that they would not have taken care of this. I will check it out. Thanks again.
Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 07 February 2012 at 7:23am
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Posted: 07 February 2012 at 1:14am |
I was finally able to get this all to work....when godaddy moved the site to a different server, it disabled the ability to write, so I set permissions again and everything is fine. Thanks!!! 
Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 07 February 2012 at 7:23am
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