Hi All,

Its been 3 months now since I have been using dotnetnuke and  I must say it is pretty good. It makes creating and maintaining a website much more easy.

However, I have experimented a lot with dotnetnuke and as a result  I have run into some technical issues.  I was playing around with the  database and changed the 'admin' and 'host'  default userID and profileID values. I set those values to some random number. When I tried to login, I got an XML error ,

'>' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '='. Line 1, position 11.

[XmlException: '>' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '='. Line 1, position 11.]
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) +87
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args) +79
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowUnexpectedToken(String expectedToken1, String expectedToken2) +157
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributes() +789
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement() +557
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent() +713
   System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() +42
   System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace) +256
   System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader) +97
   System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml) +184
   DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities.XmlUtils.DeSerializeHashtable(String xmlSource, String rootname) +112
   DotNetNuke.Services.Personalization.PersonalizationController.LoadProfile(Int32 UserId, Int32 PortalId) +111
   DotNetNuke.Services.Personalization.PersonalizationController.LoadProfile(HttpContext objHTTPContext, Int32 UserId, Int32 PortalId) +39
   DotNetNuke.HttpModules.DNNMembershipModule.OnAuthenticateRequest(Object s, EventArgs e) +3174
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +138
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +65

As a result, I set the admin n host USERID and PROFILEID values back to the original default values but I still keep getting this error.

Could anyone give some inputs as why did this happen and is there a solution to this??

Thank You

Melrine

Well....I did restore the vlaues back to the default values however it still kept giving the error. Infact, I figured that a change in the Profile_id  from the profile table caused this error.

Replying to your question....my company identifies its users by a profile_id and all data are linked to users via this profile_id. So while importing my users, I had to import the profile_id values as they were ,from the existing tables. Some of my users had profileids 1 and 2 which are the default values for host and admin. Hence the change.

However...is there a way to authenticate users via a single user ID...i.e. a single -sign on?

Regards

Melrine