Locked out

I had a Peaceworks meeting yesterday. I enjoy going to them. They are very informal… it’s a catch up one what people are doing, and what’s in the works. I’m pretty isolated since I’m working from home and never really have anybody stop over, so that getting out to that type of thing is good for me. Well, back to what I planned on writing about…. Right before going to the meeting I decided I should set up another Greymatter account so that I could show the Peaceworks crew what Greymatter was like. So I set up the other account with basic login privileges. No problem. Then I decided to logout and login as the new author to make sure they would be able to log in and view the important stuff. With only the basic login privileges you couldn’t see very much… so I decided I should give them all of the privileges… I can trust them. But when I go to login as myself (with all privileges) I can’t remember the password. You see… ever since I installed Greymatter, I’ve had it do an auto-login which uses a cookie to keep track of the author and password… but when I logged in as the peaceworks user, it changed the cookie to that user and password. And with the gzillion passwords I have used in the past, I couldn’t remember which I had used this time. Well I didn’t have time to fool around trying to remember, I had to go to the meeting. I didn’t worry too much… when I got back I could try again, maybe remember, and I had back stuff up a couple of days ago. However, on my way to the meeting, I realized that the password had to be somewhere in the code. Sure enough, when I got back, I looked at the files, opened up the gm-authors.cgi file, and there it was. I guess it doesn’t really matter that it is so easy to find… you do have to have access to the server and all the files, and if you have that you can do whatever you want anyway (Note to Goyer: don’t mess with my stuff please).