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January 13, 2005

Movable Type grumbles

One of the sillier things I've managed to do in Movable Type is delete myself as a superuser while attempting to fix a typo in my email address; logging in as another user was something of a shock. Movable Type will let you do this; afterwards you're stuck trying to regain access from the ordinary user you created as well, and simply renaming the ordinary user to match the name of the superuser doesn't work. Other silly things include creating a login containing a space when setting up MT originally, where everything after the space gets ignored -- though creating users with spaces later works fine.

It looks like this Movable Type implementation is toast. Well, I need to upgrade MT to deal with comment spam anyway -- and it seems I'll be installing that in yet another directory.

I swear, I spend more time fiddling with reinstalling and upgrading blogging software than I do using it to actually blog. (A bit like how I spent more time ten years ago reinstalling and upgrading my Macintosh computer than actually using it to compute.)

Posted by Lloyd at 01:00 AM | Comments (0)