I don't know - maybe the email got caught in your spam filters, or there's something fishy with your server's email setup. I don't think that it's a bug, as you're the first to report this behaviour, although cpg1.4.8 has been released quite some time ago. If it were an actual bug, others probably would have reported this issue before.
I'm not sure why you insist - you were able to restore admin controls, so this should teach you the lesson to memorize your admin account data and keep passwords in a safe place in the future in case you get locked out.
There are various other postings about lost passwords and md5 encryption, e.g. http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=29320.0
Thank you all for your replies and help. i will try the md5 hash next time.
Well the reason why I insist on this is that, if I want to add people into the gallery like my friends and family (I don't have public registration) and if any of them would loose their password, they can't get a new password by themselves.
I've never seen this problem before. I've had phpbb forums and there's never been a problem to get a new password. I also have a site where I've installed phpnuke and there's never been a problem with that either or the cms e107 wich I use on my personal site.
I tried the coppermine photo gallery plugin with e107 and it worked at the beginning. My site was all in Swedish at that time. Then I installed english language tables so foreign visitors was able to view my site in english , and after that I couldn't use the cpg plugin anymore, it didn't work. So that's why I installed cpg 1.4.8 in a subfolder.
If I could use the cpg plugin instead, the password problem would be easily solved, 'cause there's no problem to get a new password in the cms e107, but I can't understand why the password e-mail don't work in cpg. If it would be problem with the e-mail server set up, then it would be a problem with the cms system too (to get a new password),,,wouldn't it? And the mail goes to my gmail and I looked in the spamfolder, but nothing was there neither.
And as you said GauGau; no one has reported this issue before, so this seems to be the first time this problem comes up.
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....or others are much better to remember their passwords than I am
and here is a very simple MD5 creator:
you need to (unzip and) run it on a web server with php support
Shouldn't it be an url in your post, bmossavari? or am I missing something here?
phpmyadmin will hash the password for you, just select md5 from the dropdown box when you edit the value.
Yes this is much easier than to reinstall and make backups and copy and paste...
You see I tried to write a new password, but it didn't work because it wasnt't hashed and I didn't know how to do that, but now I know. Thank you Nibbler.
Your workaround sounds a bit complicated. Why not just edit the database entry and enter a new md5-value for your password? Another option: register as new user, then use phpMyAdmin to make him admin by changing his usergroup to "1". There are various postings that explain how to come up with a md5 hash of a password.
You see GauGau..I didn't understand what you was talking about here, but now I do
Have a nice evening everyone and thanks again for all your help.
Sussi