Question

Every time a user tries to use (that is "submit") the ChangePassword or ResetPassword forms, the oopsmanage template is displayed and the password is not changed/reset.

Our installation can be found at http://lenz.uni-koblenz.de/twiki (you can use user:WikiGast pwd:gast for the guest account). Change/ResetPassword are available at http://lenz.uni-koblenz.de/twiki/bin/view/Allgemein/ResetPassword and http://lenz.uni-koblenz.de/twiki/bin/view/Allgemein/ChangePassword

Environment

-- ChristianKohl - 09 Jun 2004

Answer

-- ChristianKohl - 09 Jun 2004

Hi Christian, Would you mind documenting what changes you had to make? It seems I have the same problem on my install.

Thanks. M.

-- MartinCleaver - 11 Jun 2004

This looks like mixing old and new versions of templates and scripts.

-- PeterThoeny - 15 Jun 2004

Hi Martin,
my problem was caused by the Dec18 update. I always backup the data-directory to later copy it back, overwriting the new install. Thus the Reset/ChangePassword-pages were still "old" whereas the scripts in bin had changed. They're assuming different parameters now and the ChangePassword-form no longer calls the passwd script (which is only used for reset) but rather the manage script. (This is the Dec18 version - don't know about later betas!). So I had to change the "form action"-tag and the "input hidden"-tag in both Reset/ChangePassword:

ResetPassword should look like this:

<form name="passwd" action="%SCRIPTURL%/passwd%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%MAINWEB%/%HOMETOPIC%" method="post">
...
<input type="hidden" name="installPasswd" value="requestReset" />

ChangePassword should look like this:

<form name="passwd" action="%SCRIPTURL%/manage%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%MAINWEB%/%HOMETOPIC%" method="post">
...
<input type="hidden" name="TopicName" value="%TOPIC%" /> | <input type="hidden" name="action" value="changePassword" />

Hope that helps. If not, you're probably running a different beta and you'll have to model the Change/ResetPassword-pages after the scripts in bin.

-- ChristianKohl - 17 Jun 2004