How do I retrieve a lost admin password

nomadone posted 2nd of April 2008 in Community Voice. 10 comments.

I was so impressed with myself that I had actually managed to install dolphin that i forgot to remember the username and password I used to install it. Now i have a community site which I can't do anything with. Anyone know how I can get retrieve my details or reset them?

mail on nomadnur@gmail.com

Thx ... I'm a complete newbie to all of this

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sammie•2nd of April 2008

easiest way is to make a new member account, (remember the password)
go to your database find the member profiles part, look up the new member account and copy the md5 code for the password. then go to the admin part of the database and replace id=1 password string with the copied new member one, save and go sign in the admin again with the new password, you'll also see the login name there too

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sammie•2nd of April 2008

you also need to paste that new code in the "profiles" for user id=1 too
so in "admins" and "profiles"

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nomadone•3rd of April 2008

Hi Sammie, thanks for the feedback, though I have no idea what you're talking about or how to go about doing any of those things you suggested, but your feedback is appreciated. Regards

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dadniel•4th of April 2008

Open phpMyAdmin from your Hosting Control panel.

Open the 'Admins' table and edit the entry.

Go to:

http://tools.perceptus.ca/text-wiz.php?ops=9

and put a choice of passwords into the field click GO.

That site will give you a weird looking string of text...

If you see the record you are editing in phpMyAdmin -- the password field looks just like it.

Replace the old one - with the oneyou generated from the site above and click ok, or go to save the changes.

Go ahead and login see more

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