New install: Stuck on Step 6 - Create admin account

Started by scoman81, August 21, 2016, 09:15:09 PM

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scoman81

This step has me confused. Any help would be appreciated.

The step says "Create" in the title, so I assume that I'm putting in a non-existent username/password, and that this username/password is within the forum software (i.e. not server or DB related).

But then at the bottom of the screen it's requesting a "database password" ... but exactly whose password is that supposed to be? I assume it has to be a DB user, but I'm not being asked for a DB account name, so what good is a password going to do?

And indeed, whatever I put in this screen, I get "Cannot connect to the database server with the supplied data."

Thanks!
Dave

scoman81

Figured it out ... it needed the password for the database user from a previous step!

Arantor

That's so if you happen to leave the install script around, users who don't know the password can't just randomly create new admin accounts.

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