I have just installed zm. I leaned much about Linux etc. since I am new to all this. However I have looked at FAQ,s, this forum, readme files and install doc. to try to find out how to change the default admin password, with no joy.
Also during the initial configuration I was prompted for and provided a Privileged user name and password. However I can not log-in to zm using same.
Great software! working well exept for this. I know it is probably an obvious solution that I have missed somewhere. Please be kind!
Changing admin password?
Fred,
There are 2 levels of authentication for Zoneminder:
1. Logging in to the Zoneminder software - this is optional, and unless you allow the rest of the world access to your html server there's little point in enabling this. You see this userid/password when you connect to your Zoneminder website.
Additional Zoneminder users can be created (with various privilege levels) on the "Users" tab in the options. The passwords can be (re)set here as well.
From memory the default user is "admin", password "admin"
Personally I don't use this level of authentication and allow Apache to do it for me via .htaccess. It doesn't give the same level of control over the internals of Zoneminder, but it is more effective at stopping outside users from browsing directly into my events directories.
2. The second level of access is is between Zoneminder and the Mysql database - generally this is hidden from the users, and you might never need these usernames/passwords. These are the userid/passwords prompted for when running the zmconfig.pl script. For future reference they are documented in zmconfig.txt in the Zoneminder build directory, should you lose/forget them.
These userid/passwords are embedded in the Zoneminder application, you might need them if you want to do some programming/reporting/maintenance directly with Mysql from the command line (or other utilities)
There are 2 levels of authentication for Zoneminder:
1. Logging in to the Zoneminder software - this is optional, and unless you allow the rest of the world access to your html server there's little point in enabling this. You see this userid/password when you connect to your Zoneminder website.
Additional Zoneminder users can be created (with various privilege levels) on the "Users" tab in the options. The passwords can be (re)set here as well.
From memory the default user is "admin", password "admin"
Personally I don't use this level of authentication and allow Apache to do it for me via .htaccess. It doesn't give the same level of control over the internals of Zoneminder, but it is more effective at stopping outside users from browsing directly into my events directories.
2. The second level of access is is between Zoneminder and the Mysql database - generally this is hidden from the users, and you might never need these usernames/passwords. These are the userid/passwords prompted for when running the zmconfig.pl script. For future reference they are documented in zmconfig.txt in the Zoneminder build directory, should you lose/forget them.
These userid/passwords are embedded in the Zoneminder application, you might need them if you want to do some programming/reporting/maintenance directly with Mysql from the command line (or other utilities)
Hi,
I would advise you to use phpMyAdmin for managing your DB
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/
I used it a lot for testing different settings.
You can for example easily move events from archives back to events when testing archiving or mail reporting.
You can set a new password that way too..
I would advise you to use phpMyAdmin for managing your DB
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/
I used it a lot for testing different settings.
You can for example easily move events from archives back to events when testing archiving or mail reporting.
You can set a new password that way too..
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Users Guide?
Thanks for taking the time to reply so quickly. the information and advice was right on!
Is there a comprehensive Users Guide available? I would like to find out more about how to use the x10 feature.
Is there a comprehensive Users Guide available? I would like to find out more about how to use the x10 feature.
There's really no one location for the documentation. Before embarking on experimenting with a module such as X10 (which unfortinately I havn't used) you might like to research the following locations:
The Zoneminder documentation/FAQ's
These forums
The user contrib forum
My best advice would be (if you have a machine you can affort to break and reinstall) just have a play and see how it works. If you figure out how something works, and the existing documentation is a bit 'thin', then please help out those who follow by writing something a little bit 'thicker' and contributing it.
I started with Zoneminder about 18 months ago by playing ... and learnt a lot! I knew nothing about Linux, Apache, PHP (but enough about UNIX in general to survive my initial probems). It's a steep learning curve, but well worth it.
We're all learning here, some of us have a wealth of experience in other areas, other have none. Don't be embarassed, if you don't know how it works just ask!
Good luck, every successful step puts you closer to the finish.
The Zoneminder documentation/FAQ's
These forums
The user contrib forum
My best advice would be (if you have a machine you can affort to break and reinstall) just have a play and see how it works. If you figure out how something works, and the existing documentation is a bit 'thin', then please help out those who follow by writing something a little bit 'thicker' and contributing it.
I started with Zoneminder about 18 months ago by playing ... and learnt a lot! I knew nothing about Linux, Apache, PHP (but enough about UNIX in general to survive my initial probems). It's a steep learning curve, but well worth it.
We're all learning here, some of us have a wealth of experience in other areas, other have none. Don't be embarassed, if you don't know how it works just ask!
Good luck, every successful step puts you closer to the finish.
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Thanks nugget for taking the time to help here.
The X10 support is pretty simple really. The first thing you need to do is make sure you have installed the X10::ActiveHome perl module (see the README for instructions on using cpan), then in the ZM Options dialog you will need to enable X10 functionality, and then (possibly) set a couple of options in the Options->X10 tab (which will be hidden until enabled).
The X10 settings for the monitors are described in some (perhaps not enough) detail in the README.
Phil,
The X10 support is pretty simple really. The first thing you need to do is make sure you have installed the X10::ActiveHome perl module (see the README for instructions on using cpan), then in the ZM Options dialog you will need to enable X10 functionality, and then (possibly) set a couple of options in the Options->X10 tab (which will be hidden until enabled).
The X10 settings for the monitors are described in some (perhaps not enough) detail in the README.
Phil,