[ZendTo] Admin user account disable

Chris Venter chris.venter1 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 09:32:01 GMT 2020


Hi Rahul

As far as I am aware zendto does not create any local users when installing
the system, there are no default admin accounts created upon install.

Chris

On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 08:03, Rahul Kumar via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to> wrote:

> i don't think the AD has this admin user enabled at their end.
>
> still i will check but is there somewhere in zendto application this
> particular user "admin" exists ? i checked everywhere but didn't found.
>
> Thanks,
> Rahul Kumar
> Contact(M): 9958664330
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:52 PM Ken Etter via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to>
> wrote:
>
>> Or if the admin is in a different OU from standard users (hopefully), you
>> could just change the BaseDN setting to only use the OU for standard
>> users.  That is what I do here.
>>
>> Ken
>> >>> Massimo Forni via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to> 3/5/2020 7:25 AM >>>
>> Just disable that user in AD
>>
>> *From:* ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to> *On Behalf Of *Rahul Kumar via
>> ZendTo
>> *Sent:* giovedì 5 marzo 2020 13:03
>> *To:* Jules Field <Jules at zend.to>
>> *Cc:* Rahul Kumar <rahulkumar.imps at gmail.com>; ZendTo Users <
>> zendto at zend.to>
>> *Subject:* Re: [ZendTo] Admin user account disable
>>
>> Issue is my zendto is authentication through AD users but somehow admin
>> userid is also working whose password i am unable to change or delete that
>> user admin.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rahul Kumar
>> Contact(M): 9958664330
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:08 PM Jules Field <Jules at zend.to> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 05/03/2020 09:37, Rahul Kumar via ZendTo wrote:
>>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> please check te error below,
>>
>> /opt/zendto/bin# ./deleteuser.php admin
>> PHP Notice:  Undefined index: SERVER_PORT in
>> /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 41
>> PHP Notice:  Undefined index: HTTPS in /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on
>> line 42
>> PHP Notice:  Undefined index: HTTPS in /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on
>> line 48
>> PHP Notice:  Undefined index: SERVER_NAME in
>> /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 48
>> PHP Notice:  Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in
>> /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 48
>>
>> Don't worry about them, they are harmless.
>>
>>
>> Failed: Aborting deleting user admin as that user does not exist
>>
>> So there isn't any local user (in ZendTo) called "admin".
>>
>> ZendTo doesn't automatically create *any* accounts of any sort when you
>> install it. There are no "default admin credentials" or anything like that.
>>
>> If you want to delete an account called "admin", you first need to find
>> where it is. You have just proved it's not part of ZendTo itself.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jules.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rahul Kumar
>> Contact(M): 9958664330
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 1:19 PM Chris Venter via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rahul
>>
>> Are you talking about a local admin account created for the Zend.To
>> install? If so have a look for the deleteuser script and remove the local
>> account using that not sure on the version but the syntax example on my
>> install is:
>>
>> /opt/zendto/bin$ ./deleteuser
>>
>>   usage:
>>
>>    ./deleteuser '<username>'
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 07:33, Rahul Kumar via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to>
>> wrote:
>>
>> hi Jules,
>>
>> i checked , config showing me this  'authAdmins'           =>
>> array('taraf','trou','jone','balla','bickel','holcom'),
>>
>> but my concern is *admin *username which i need to disable, i don't see
>> any username "*admin*" in config files so what could i do?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rahul Kumar
>> Contact(M): 9958664330
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Jules Field <Jules at zend.to> wrote:
>>
>> Rahul,
>>
>> My mistake, sorry.
>> The setting is called 'authAdmins'. So you want to change that line in
>> preferences.php to
>>     'authAdmins' => array(),
>>
>> Don't forget the trailing comma on the end!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jules.
>> On 04/03/2020 04:15, Rahul Kumar wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jules,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing the advise, i would like to go for it but for the
>> moment i need first to disable the admin login.
>>
>> when i checked the config files, there is no such settings for
>> "adminUsers" , could you please suggest what i can do next.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rahul
>> Thanks,
>> Rahul Kumar
>> Contact(M): 9958664330
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 5:25 PM Jules Field <Jules at zend.to> wrote:
>>
>> Rahul,
>>
>> I would strongly advise that you build a new server/VM running the latest
>> version of ZendTo. There are a lot of new features and improvements that
>> your users might well want to use.
>>
>> But to answer your question, look in preferences.php. There is a setting
>> called "adminUsers". Set that to
>>     'adminUsers' => array(),
>> and that will mean you have no ZendTo administrators. Everything should
>> work fine like that. You will just need to temporarily add whatever
>> username is an administrator when you need to carry out any admin tasks
>> such as looking at the global list of drop-offs, or unlocking users who
>> have been locked out for having failed to many username/password checks in
>> a row.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jules.
>> On 03/03/2020 05:21, Rahul Kumar via ZendTo wrote:
>>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> i have zendto  Version 4.11  running but i want to disable the Admin user
>> account as it is a security issue for us. we already authenticating users
>> through ldap.
>>
>> could someone please help in this ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rahul Kumar
>> Contact(M): 9958664330
>>
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