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July 10, 2006
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Invalid Authorization Specification

  • July 10, 2006
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When I go to the homepage of my companies website I am receiving an entire error report as is anyone else that goes to the site. The [problem is such that I cant even get to the backend control panel because the authorization of my database is all messed up.

The error I receive is : Invalid Authorization Specification: Access denied for user: 'nehra@localhost.localdomain' (Using Password: Yes)

The web address is www.nehra.com

Any ideas about what I should do from here I have already rebooted the server and gone that direction and nothing changed...
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July 28, 2006
Please what was the answer to your problem

Inspiring
July 10, 2006
Can you use some kind of database tool to connect to the database in
question to make sure it is up and running and behaving properly. And
that you can log on with these credentials?

Mrtechguy wrote:
> When I go to the homepage of my companies website I am receiving an entire
> error report as is anyone else that goes to the site. The [problem is such
> that I cant even get to the backend control panel because the authorization of
> my database is all messed up.
>
> The error I receive is : Invalid Authorization Specification: Access denied
> for user: 'nehra@localhost.localdomain' (Using Password: Yes)
>
> The web address is www.nehra.com
>
> Any ideas about what I should do from here I have already rebooted the server
> and gone that direction and nothing changed...
>
Participating Frequently
July 10, 2006
Did you change the database at all? Did the user get deleted? Locked out? Password change etc?
July 10, 2006
Any chance you were hacked or had a disgruntled employee change something?

Can you snapshot the current system (for analysis) and then restore from the last good backup?