John R Pierce wrote: >>> "Congratulations, Drupal has been successfully installed. >> Please review the messages above before continuing on to your new site." >> I removed write permissions from /etc/drupal/default/settings.php >> as suggested, and click on "your new site", >> which takes me to <http://www.gayleard.com/drupal/>, >> where I am invited to login. >> I do not recall ever being asked for a drupal username or password, >> except for those I gave for the drupal database. >> But when I give these I am told, >> "Sorry, unrecognized username or password. >> Have you forgotten your password?" >> On clicking on the last sentence >> I am asked for my username or email address. >> I don't recall ever giving an email address for drupal, >> but I give one now, and click on "Email new password". > 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. Thanks for your response. 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. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland