[moin-user] moinmoin 1.9.8 : errors attempting to reset account password via shell

[Lars Noodén]

On 07/29/2017 06:05 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
> On Saturday 29. July 2017 17.00.17 Lars Nood�n wrote:
>> On 07/29/2017 05:43 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I would start with setting --config-dir and see what error you get next.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.  I'm not sure I have applied that option correctly
>> as I still get quite a long error message.  From the following:
>>
>>     moin --config-dir=/home/wiki/ \
>>         account resetpw --name=someaccount newpassword
>>
>> I get the errors below.
> 
> This is what I might have written, if /home/wiki contains wikiconfig.py, so we 
> may be dealing with another problem. Can the user running this command access 
> the configuration file?

Yes, though I am not sure what level of permission is adequate.

$ whoami
user1

$ ls -lhd /home/wiki/
drwxr-xr-x  5 user1  user1   512B Jul 29 17:47 /home/wiki/

$ ls -lh /home/wiki/
total 52
drwxr-xr-x  5 user1  user1   512B Jul 14 20:39 wiki1
-rw-r--r--  1 user1  user1   1.4K Jul 14 21:31 wiki1.py
-rw-r--r--  1 user1  user1   819B Jul 14 21:31 wiki1.pyc
-rw-r--r--  1 user1  user1   6.9K Jul 29 16:41 farmconfig.py
-rw-r-----  1 user1  user1   1.6K Jul 29 16:42 farmconfig.pyc
-rw-r--r--  1 user1  user1   571B Jul 14 20:48 log.conf
drwxr-xr-x  2 user1  user1   512B Jul 14 20:48 logs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 user1  user1   3.3K Jul 29 11:36 moin.fcgi
drwxr-xr-x  3 user1  user1   512B Jul 14 21:01 underlay

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Regards,
Lars