lost admin password

[yulises]

How can I recovere my admin password ?
I tried to cahnge it in the data base (no luck ..)
I will appriciate for a good description how to do it

Thank you in advance
Nimrod

[michael_s]

You can have the admin panel login screen send you a new password. Click the lost password link.

You can also modify the admin password by directly editing the database password field.

Enter this hash into the field:

05cdeb1aeaffec1c7ae3f12c570a658c:81

This will reset the password to:

admin

[yulises]

Thank you
appriciat you quick replay

[jeep11]

Originally Posted by michael_s

You can have the admin panel login screen send you a new password. Click the lost password link.

You can also modify the admin password by directly editing the database password field.

Enter this hash into the field:

05cdeb1aeaffec1c7ae3f12c570a658c:81

This will reset the password to:

admin

Sorry to ask this but how do you do this in easy newbie laymans terms, via mysql?? I've tried the recover password but it does not recognise my email address? Is there a way to reset it via editing some file somewhere on the server? basically after install I changed my user name via the admin panel but I did not see any way to change the password, all was fine until I tried to change from the default admin@localhost, now I'm stuck??

[michael_s]

Edit the admin password field directly in the database. Use a neato visual editor like phpmyadmin if you don't know how to do it manually (or can't because your host won't let you).

[jeep11]

Worked out myself in the end via PHPmyadmin, thanks for swift reply, appreciated.