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Hi,
I installed zoneminder on a gentoo system using portage.
After that I manually created the db and tables from the info I found in the zm source package (zmschema.sql).
Now the zm-console seems to work, at least I can add a monitor, but it doesn't get any image from the locally attached webcam. So I tried to run zmu -d 0 -q -v, but I just get:
Can't connect to server: Access denied for user: 'zoneminder@localhost' (Using password: YES)
So to me it seems like zmu uses another password than the php-scripts. Where does zmu get its configuration?
Thanks in advance
f.

The configuration for ZM is mostly stored in the Config table of the zm database. There are two DB username/password combos that ZM uses, though they can be the same, these will have been specified when you ran zmconfig.pl initially.

Can you get into your DB manually using mysql zm -u<user> -p<pass>?

Phil,

Figured out the gentoo portage version didn't create the database structure correctly, did it myself from scratch using the latest source package, now this problem is solved.
Thanks for your hint