Ampps rejects my Mac user password when I open it

Question

I installed AMPPS using the "website" and "brew cask" but in both times when I enter the mac user password it gives "the password you entered is incorrect"

I thought i typed the password wrong or something so I typed it in a text file and copied it the passowrd field and to check if I typed the password wrong again pasted for sudo as well

does anyone have the same problem or know a solution

https://www.softaculous.com/board/index.php?tid=16184

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Answer 1

The new AMPPS has some strange security configuration with the login not allowing special characters.

I changed the password as per gcrum suggestion then logged in AMPPS saving the password. Then I was able to return my original password with AMPPS still working.

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Thanks to gcrum for figuring it out.

I think I figured this problem out. It wants to use your Mac login password AND it can't have any special characters in it. If you change your password to alpha numeric only it does work. Not very secure and very stupid, but was able to get past the password prompt.

Edit (7 Apr):

Although the password trick worked to run the app, adding domains did not work and after restarting the mac only the MySQL server started.

Answer 2

I'm having same symptom when starting Ampps which has just been downloaded. In my case, the password is normal (no special characters), it was caused by another issue.

I tried this and solved my issue: right click Ampps.app, click "Open" to start Ampps. Then now enter the same password. Check "Remember" so next time it can start Ampps normally without asking for password again.