Sentinel is blocking me!

Nuke Soldier Joined: Oct 16, 2004 Posts: 22

i set the setting so you get a popup when you go to admin.php ...and it says:

enter user & pass for "Protected" @ mysite.com

I entered my user name and the pass and it wont log me in...Any helP?

Nuke Soldier Joined: Mar 26, 2004 Posts: 34

its caps sensitive i think. If you don't get it go into phpmyadmin and search for HTTP Auth, and change it from 1 to 0.

Corporal Joined: Sep 06, 2004 Posts: 57

I'm having a similar problem. I just upgraded from Sentinel 2.0.2 to 2.1.0. I'm trying to access the Admin Panel and it keeps prompting me for a username and password. I've entered my GOD account in every way possible ( e.g. lower case, upper case, EXACTLY how I registered it ) and entered the correct password each time too with NO LUCK.

I went into phpMyAdmin and found nuke_nsnst_config. I could not find a line "HTTP Auth". What I did find was "http_auth". That VALUE was already set to "0". Just for the hell of it, I editted it and put the value to "0" again and saved it. Went back into my site and STILL cannot access the admin section.

Anyone have any ideas??? I would GREATLY appreciate it! Smile

Corporal Joined: Sep 06, 2004 Posts: 57

Ok... I figured out part of my problem. Previous to intalling 2.1.0, I did NOT have a .htaccess and a .staccess. After removing these files I am now able to access my Admin panel again.

The .htaccess and .staccess that I used was what came with Nuke Sentinel 2.1.0. I just removed the "sample." from the beginning of it. ( Incase anyone is wondering why I didn't have these files previously, I just moved from an Win IIS web server to a Linux Apache web server ).

Can anyone give me direction on where I can get information on what should be in these two files and how to properly use them?

Any help is REALLY appreciated! Smile

Nuke Cadet Joined: Oct 07, 2004 Posts: 3

I think that the .htaccess should be blank.

Corporal Joined: Sep 06, 2004 Posts: 57

The .staccess is blank....

.htaccess has the following code:

Code:

Options All -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html

# -------------------------------------------
# Start of NukeSentinel(tm) admin.php Auth
# -------------------------------------------
<Files .staccess>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files admin.php>
<Limit GET POST PUT>
require valid-user
</Limit>
AuthName "Restricted"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/your/.staccess
</Files>

# -------------------------------------------
# Start of NukeSentinel(tm) DENY FROM area
# -------------------------------------------

I'm just starting to learn PHP and coding. It would seem to me that the .staccess is being called and there is nothing in that file for it to reference. I wasn't sure if I needed to add information to the .staccess so it knew who the right admin's were to allow.

Again, anyone that could provide insight into this, would be appreciated! Smile

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:39 pm

I'm in the same boat - can any one offer insight for this?

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jan 11, 2005 Posts: 15

yeah same here, how do i tell it that im ok to log in?

Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:30 am

I did figure it out - you MUST be logged in as the God admin to create the passwords for CGIAuth / HTTP Auth. If you are not logged in as God, you won't see the ability to create these in Sentinel. Additionally, the God account must be named God. If you rename the account, Nuke no longer consders it "God" any more, and you can whack the account, etc.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 15, 2005 Posts: 2

I just added name:pass to mine so i could get into it.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 07, 2005 Posts: 7

Hi all,
i have the same problem.

So dogeit.
Which file you added user:pass ?
To .htaccess or .staccess?

Some good links to read about this subject is to the sentinel's author forums here: http://ravenphpscripts.com/postt2950.html

Thx.