John R Pierce wrote:
IIRC, when you first install it, you register a new account and this account #1 becomes the 'webmaster' account with master privileges. I often call it webmaster.
But as I mentioned, I installed drupal by "sudo yum install drupal", and was never asked to register an account. I'll see if I can deduce from the MySQL database what name and email address have been assigned.
no, I mean from the web interface.... go to that default webpage, and use the 'create new account' function thats there. the first account thats created is user #1, and is the drupal equivalent of a superuser.
I found in the end the bizarre cause of my problem. When I looked at the MySQL table drupal.users (my Drupal database is called drupal) I found that I was entered as user #2, a strange alien being entered as user #1, and so I presume the administrator.
I take it some hacker has a program that looks for drupal sites, and managed to get in between the time I installed drupal and the time I logged in. (Only a couple of minutes, as I recall.) I tried deleting this user, and moving myself up, but apparently it was too late. I kicked myself for not making a note of the intruder, or the email address they gave.
In any case, when I yum-deleted drupal, and deleted the drupal databse, and started again, it all worked fine.