User Name and Password doesn't match error on admin and user

[Cockeye]

I have just done a clean install using latest build of Joomla 1.5 and the installation is if anything even smoother than the last version - so congrats on that designers

However, I set up the admin account on install but everytime I log in I get the error message "User Name and password don't match" which means I can't login to the admin page.

In order to test I created a test user, and the user was created OK, and an activation email was sent out which I clicked on, but when I try to log on as that user I get the same error message "User name and password don't match".

If anyone has any idea I would be very grateful.

[humvee]

One solution would be to open PHPMyAdmin or similar GUI and access your database.
Go to the jos_users table.
Find the User Super Admin ID 62.
Click the edit pencil.
Scroll down to the password variable.
Highlight and delete the password that is displayed (it is MD5# + SALT) of the password you entered.
Now copy and paste the following MD5# string into the field

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21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3

This code represents the password: admin.
Now click Go to save the change to the database.
Goto http://yourdomain.com/administrator
enter Username admin and password admin. You should be in to your Control Panel
Now go to the User Manager and select the admin user and change the password to something personal.

hth

Andy

[wsmedia]

great post. thanks.

[jpgareri]

Fantastic. This was exactly the problem I was having and it worked. Our site was hacked and it appears all the non-super administrators were deleted from the DB and the login information for the three super admins were changed in some way, but not deleted.

Anyway, this solution solved the problem of not getting in.

Thanks.

[James Cahoon]

Can anyone help me figure out why 21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3 doesn't seem to be working? I have pretty bad insomnia right now but I'm pretty sure I'm doing this correctly, so it should just plug in as the admin password?

Man... I've been having so many problems with Joomla... not being very techy + insomnia problems go a long way towards attacking my brains.

[davidgblackburn]

Just to let you know, I had the same problem, but never received a confirmation e-mail. After reading your post, rather than changing anything, I just went back to the page and signed in as Admin with my own password. It worked perfectly.