Who You Calling A Jesse?

A very annoying lesson was learned today: if you have Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) controlling your site settings and you are sharing connection information with the users on the site (sometimes a good thing, most times not) and you change the server password of the shared connection you will be locked out of the site altogether. To fix it and retain the users on your site you have to do the following:

• change back to the original password
• change the user directory settings so each user must have their own connection information, enter yours as directed
• change the password on your server connection
• go back into Contribute and change the user directory settings back to the sharing option, re-enter information, done

If I am not sharing the connection, why does Contribute not just prompt me for a new password given I am the administrator and the keeper of said connection? Works fine if I am not sharing so I can only guess once you share all people become equal under the connection settings.

Locking the admin out is still dumb. You shouldn’t have to connect to the web server to admin the site if you have a CPS controlling it all. No idea why I hadn’t noticed before. I have only a few sites that share but it sure was a waste of time thinking of a way to get around it.