2017-01-26, 08:08:06
(2017-01-26, 01:44:27)Carlos Wrote: Is user.xml the name of the user file? Is it stored in data/other, instead of data/users? If so, it's for an old GS version (probably 2.x).
No. The user file is located in data/users and it is named blablasomething.xml and inside the file there is <USR>blablasomething</USR> and some other login/user data. I mean, the regular stuff for a user.xml file.
And data/other folder contains three subfolders (logs, pages_comments, and protected_content) and a number of .xml files, mostly starting with i18n_special_blablabla... Nothing like a user.xml file there.
But, interestingly, after digging around the entire website (server), I found in one of backup folders (I forgot which one), a user file named something-else-more-likely-to-be-the-real-user.xml.bak. Then I got excited, hoping that it would work if I "restore" the file, rename it to delete bak, and place it in the right folder, and change the password according to the "1111" method. But, unfortunately, no. This did not happen. That's why I concluded that the guy planted the fake user.xml, but forgot to delete the previous genuine .bak copy, yet, he probably unregistered later. Or maybe he planted the .bak file, too, on purpose. Who knows what he was thinking. I guess we'll never know.
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