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Lloydworth
Lloydworth

Reputation: 763

Joomla! - Unable to log in

I'm using Joomla 1.5.22.

I tried to manually insert a new user to the 'site_users' table in the database. But when i tried to log in with the new user, the page just refresh but doesn't log in.

May i know why is that so? Sorry as i'm a beginner in programming and Joomla.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 353

Answers (3)

Gaurav
Gaurav

Reputation: 28755

Kevin is right.

If you want to add new user, then best way for you to add it from backend.

Actually, Joomla use do not depend only on one table #__user, with each entry of user, there access level are also maintained in some other tables. like core_acl_pro, acl_group etc

Password of user are md5 hashed of password and a random salt.

So its better to create user from backend.

Upvotes: 1

Arnaud
Arnaud

Reputation: 412

+1 Kevin

Password are hashed when stored in the database. So you cannot store this information without knowning what you do!

Upvotes: 0

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 1019

To create a new user the best solution is to :

  1. login to the administrator page : http://www.yourwebsiteurl/administrator
  2. then go to user management and create a new user

Don't try to insert a new user with a MySQL request, use the web interface.

Upvotes: 3

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