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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: flamer123 on March 29, 2006, 09:56:02 PM

Title: ECPassword problem
Post by: flamer123 on March 29, 2006, 09:56:02 PM

Hi!

I just installed aMule 2.1.1 from the debian repository mentioned in the wiki.
The only things I installed were amuled and amulecmd, as it is being run on a console-only machine.

Now the problem:
For using amulecmd I have to start amuled and enable AcceptExternalConnections in the .conf.
Now I also have to enter a password for the connection under ECPassword. Regardless what I enter (cleartext pw, md5 hash, normal hash (from userdbpw) ), amuled gves me the error message:
'2006-03-29 21:38:47: EC Auth failed, invalid hash specificed as EC password:
2006-03-29 21:38:47: Authentication failed, invalid hash specified as EC password.'

Leaving ECPassword empty, as advised in the wiki (http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ_amulecmd) does not work as amuled then refuses to start:
'ERROR: A valid password is required to use external connections, and aMule daemon cannot be used without external connections. To run aMule deamon, you must set the "ECPassword" field in the file ~/.aMule/amule.conf with an appropriate value. More information can be found at http://wiki.amule.org'

Where can I get a vaild password from?

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: ECPassword problem
Post by: stefanero on March 29, 2006, 11:05:43 PM

you have to "create" the password yourself ;)

$ echo -n yourpasswordhere | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1

^^this command will give you an md5sum as password, put this md5sum into your aMule.conf as ECpassword

btw: when you edit the amule.conf file, STOP teh daemon before that, or on shutdown all changes will be lost.

so stop -> edit -> restart

Title: Re: ECPassword problem
Post by: flamer123 on March 30, 2006, 11:24:54 AM

It works fine. Thanks a lot!

I thought it would be something like that, but it was too late yesterday to come into my mind ;-)