Initial user/admin creation

[danmons]

I've successfully installed the three components of Torrust (tracker, index-backend, index-frontend) and have it all appearing in a client side browser, but can't log in.

My index-backend data.db has a table torrust_users which is empty, and I can populate it with data via the command line sqlite3 tool, but don't know how to hash a password correctly to be recognised as valid and let me log in.

Is there a command line tool to do this for me? Alternatively is there a simple openssl style command to generate the hashed password?

[mickvandijke]

Hey @danmons ,

You just need to register for an account using the torrust-index-frontend. The first account you create will be the administrator account.

Hope this helps

[danmons]

Thanks. I couldn't get the sign up working at first, as email wasn't working. I've got a local internal postfix relay configured with no authentication (itself out to an external authenticated relay), and torrust-index-backend kept throwing the following error:

Failed to send email: internal client error: No compatible authentication mechanism was found

It seems to EHLO, but then gives up. From mail.log:

Jun 14 16:14:12 torrust postfix/smtpd[51129]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jun 14 16:14:12 torrust postfix/smtpd[51129]: lost connection after EHLO from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jun 14 16:14:12 torrust postfix/smtpd[51129]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] ehlo=1 commands=1

Is there a way to tell torrust-index-backend to not attempt authentication? Currently config.toml says:

username = ""
password = ""

At any rate, I set email_verification_enabled to false and that at least got my administrator account working.

[mickvandijke]

I suppose this issue was closed by setting email_verification_enabled to false.