Glenys Hanson

Hi Mary and Gordon,

Sorry to disagree with such eminent people, but what you say isn't quite true.

If the permissions have been set up right, guests can do a Quiz if they click on "Preview" (Prévisualisation in French).

If you follow this link: http://uepd.quizport.com/mod/quiz/attempt.php?q=27 it's true as Gordon has said you'll be redirected to the login page, but if you click on "Connexion anonyme" (French is the default language of the site) the quiz will open as below. (Vous êtes connecté anonymement = You are currently using guest access)

Not the most user friendly of procedures and I hope somebody will change things so that it's easier to make demo sites.

Cheers,

Glenys

PS With the Hot Potatoes version of this, there's no problem at all for guests - at least, not in Moodle 1.9. ;)

Hi Peter,

Could it be this?

Users accounts can be automatically deleted after a certain number of days. It's controlled by the admin in:

Server > Cleanup > Unsbscribe users from courses after

You can set it to: Never

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Raman,

I just had to do this yesterday and found I had to something slightly different from my instructions above:

In phpMyAdmin

• Click on the moodle database on the left.
• In the new window, in the list on the left, find the table mdl_user (it may be on a following page)
• Select the file to edit with the "pen" icon.
• Change the username to whatever you want but not "admin" (on an online site because of security risk)
• Copy the "guest" password.
• Replace the "admin" password by the "guest" password
• Click on the "Go" button at the bottom of the screen.
• Log in to your Moodle site using the word "guest" (without the quotes) as the password.
• Change the password in your profile to a very strong one.

I think Guillermo is saying the same thing in different words.

It's very difficult to be clear, isn't it? Maybe the screenshot below of phpMyAdmin will help. There I copied "a7b811037c0c9a6c697660cb28fc4b57", and then opened admin for editing and replaced "3fd111aef85ef819c22d89fa1f90b448" by "a7b811037c0c9a6c697660cb28fc4b57"

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Raman,

Have you seen this discusssion? http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=18103

These seem to be the solutions that to work best:

In phpMyAdmin

In the table mdl_user

Insert:
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

as a password. Because MD5("") = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e, so now your password is a empty string. Then login with nothing in the password field.

Thanks to Seiti Yamashiro - Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 11:08 PM

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If all else fails and you can access the database via phpMyAdmin, go to the mdl_user table and copy the guest password into the Admin password field. It is encrypted, but the default password for Guest is "guest". You can then log in and change the password. That should get you out of trouble.

Colin Fraser - Friday, 11 February 2011, 07:27 AM

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This is what worked for me :

In phpMyAdmin

Click on the moodle database on the left.

In the new window, in the list on the left, find the table mdl_user (it may be on a following page)

Select the file to edit with the "pen" icon.

Change the username to whatever you want but not "admin" (on an online site because of security risk)

Change the password to: guest

Click on the "Go" button at the bottom of the screen.

Log in to your Moodle site with the password "guest"

Change the password in your profile to a very strong one.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Gudrun,

I have just one at the moment on my Mac OS X. I did it by installing Xampp, not Lampp. Here are step by step instructions for non-techies like me: Install Moodle 1.9 on Mac.pdf I haven't installed Moodle 2 yet but I think it's very similar.

Cheers,

Glenys