Szia Christian :-)
Yeah, I've tried restarting the server.
And this time I tried running the server as root and now it works fine! So it looks like the problem was that I had created a non-root user (basex) to run the server (I thought it would be safer when this gets deployed to a real server later).
Many thanks for your help!
Csaba

On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 at 21:56, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
Szia Csaba,

Thanks for your observation. You may need to set the password first, and start the server after that.

Does this help?
Christian



Csaba Fekete <feketecsaba@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 20. Okt. 2023, 21:40:
Hello,

A total newbie here, I'm a first time user.
I have installed basex on Ubuntu and I'm running the server attached to 127.0.0.1, on port 1984. It looks like this is working and the server is listening.
Now I create a password for admin:

basex@cac5ba21e248:/opt/basex/bin$ ./basex
BaseX 10.8 beta [Standalone]
Try 'help' to get more information.
> PASSWORD xxx
Password of user 'admin' changed.

Now I'm trying to connect using the client:

basex@cac5ba21e248:/opt/basex/bin$ ./basexclient -n127.0.0.1 -p1984 -Uadmin -Pxxx
Access denied: admin.

The server log confirms the same:

basex@cac5ba21e248:~/basex/.logs$ cat 2023-10-20.log
18:51:30.575 SERVER admin OK Server was started (port: 1984).
18:51:42.316 172.22.0.1:41314 admin ERROR Access denied: admin. 30.7 ms
18:53:04.079 172.22.0.1:59892 admin ERROR Access denied: admin. 23.59 ms

What am I missing?
Thanks and regards

PS. I'm doing this inside a docker container if that matters.