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. -- 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