New Users Cannot Login

mellymell · Post by **mellymell** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 4:35 pm

Hello. I've set up my phpbb but new users can't log in. I've tested it by creating a new user but I can't login either. I don't have it set up to use the confirmation e-mail system, but even when I did, it didn't change the fact that people couldn't login. They can only get in when I go into the administration panel and go to user management and then reset their password myself.

Don't know if it's pertinent, but I'm using 2.0.2.

Thank you for your help!

JallaBalla [EO] · Post by **JallaBalla [EO]** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 7:01 am

Same problem here, and my user activation mode is set to NONE in the admin configuration tool. Now i also have tested to acctually set it to USER Activation and i recieve the same e-mail....(the one saying my account isn't activated)
So what i am saying is that the system always sends me an e-mail saying that my account has to be activated - no matter how i set the user setings in administration config.

I also use 2.02 www.enemyoffline.com/phpBB2

Hope someone can help me

Acecool · Post by **Acecool** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 7:05 am

try downloading the PATCH from download section
upload all 4 files to your main forum directory
then open the php file in your browser
will patc to 2.03
if that doesnt fix it them hmm im stumped

JallaBalla [EO] · Post by **JallaBalla [EO]** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 7:26 am

Now i have upgraded to 2.0.3
i still recieve the e-mail saying that my useraccount has to be activated even though my config says NONE. The newly registred user is still INACTIVE and i must logon as the forum admin to manually set the user active 8O

Haywood Jahelpme · Post by **Haywood Jahelpme** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 10:16 am

JallaBalla [EO] wrote: Now i have upgraded to 2.0.3
i still recieve the e-mail saying that my useraccount has to be activated even though my config says NONE. The newly registred user is still INACTIVE and i must logon as the forum admin to manually set the user active 8O

Are their cookies enabled?

bodhi

JallaBalla [EO] · Post by **JallaBalla [EO]** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 10:42 am

Yepp, cookies enabled.

w3neo · Post by **w3neo** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:32 pm

Sorry I cannot provide an answer to your problem But I too have a similar situation.

I dont know why but out of about 50 users who have registered since setting up a couple days ago 3 or 4 have not been able to log in. I deleted their account so they could set it up again and all went well the second time around. I would guess in my case it has been user error and they did something slightly different the second time around.

mellymell · Post by **mellymell** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 5:31 pm

I tried to upgrade using the patch method but I got an error in one of the humps. It would be HORRIBLE if I had to use the file copy method because I have too many mods installed for that method.

But, the problem seems to be that the password isn't saving properly upon account setup. When I changed my preference to NONE as far as account activation, users WERE automatically becoming active. My problem was that their PASSWORDS were still not working. And, even when I tested it to make sure that they weren't having CaSE issues, I used all lower case with the dummy account and it still didn't work.

What to do?

JallaBalla [EO] · Post by **JallaBalla [EO]** » Sat Oct 26, 2002 2:09 am

this is f... strange.... no one seems to know the answer why my members still must be actiivated..... I posted this problem before, but no one know howto fix it...

i give up...

JallaBalla [EO] · Post by **JallaBalla [EO]** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 1:46 pm

8) .... acctually, i have'nt given up jet

anyone

phpika · Post by **phpika** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 1:51 pm

I'm sorry, I don't know. Maybe its a problem with your host? Who is your host?

JallaBalla [EO] · Post by **JallaBalla [EO]** » Mon Oct 28, 2002 5:01 pm

I'm my own host - www.enemyoffline.com (Mandrake 8.1 MySql)

mellymell · Post by **mellymell** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 7:10 pm

and my host is Hostforweb.com

mellymell · Post by **mellymell** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 8:23 pm

I think I've found the problem but I need HELP resolving it.

It seems that in the usercp_register file, the 2 password variables are: password_new and password_confirm

But, in the mod files, the variable is: password and password_confirm

I checked the admin user management area and in that area, the password variable is: password

So, since my password files in the usercp_register are set to variable: password_new, this may explain why I have to manually set my users passwords, because the registration page is setting the wrong password variable. I hope this makes sense, but how can I fix it? I thought to just try to change all the password_new variables to password in the usercp_register, but it didn't seem to work-I got password not matching errors.

Please advise.

JallaBalla [EO] · Post by **JallaBalla [EO]** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 8:34 pm

I don't think this is the same as my problem because my users have no trobles with their passwords....they have problems with their user accounts not being activated and therefore I must activate it for them. Once activated its no problem.

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