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What is the back end login and password for the full version of CactuShop?

Item: #175
Date: 15 Apr 2002
Applies to
v3
v4
v5
v6

Question

What are the back end login and password for CactuShop? How do I change these default settings? What do I do if I forgot the login and password?

Answer

The back end default login and password are both 'cactushop'. These should be changed as soon as possible for security reasons to new values.

Once you have changed the user name and password for your site from the default values, we have no way of gaining access to your store. We do not have a 'master key' or some secret way to recover your username and password for you. The only way to recover these is direct from the database as detailed below.

In CactuShop v6, the logins(s) and password(s) for back end users are stored in the tblCactuShop1Logins table. The main admin account login and password are normally set during the install routine. Note that only logins with 'admin/config' permissions can change the permissions on other logins or create new ones. If you forget these, you will need to download the Access database file or go to your MS SQL or MySQL admin tool (depending on which type of database your site uses) and open up the tblCactuShop1Logins table to find these details.

In CactuShop v5.x, the logins(s) and password(s) for back end users are stored in the tblCactuShopLogins table. Note that only logins with 'admin/config' permissions can change the permissions on other logins or create new ones. If you forget these, you will need to download the Access database file or go to your MS SQL or MySQL admin tool (depending on which type of database your site uses) and open up the tblCactuShopLoginstable to find these details.

In CactuShop v4.5, 4.6 and 4.7, only a single admin login is supported. The username and password and stored in the config settings backendlogin and backendpassword. If you forget these, you will need to download the Access database file or go to your MS SQL or MySQL admin tool (depending on which type of database your site uses) and open up the tblCactuShopConfigtable to find these details.

In CactuShop v4.2xx and below, the username and password are set in the back_password.asp script in the includes folder. If you forget these, you will need to download that file through FTP and recover the values from there.

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