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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by V_I_R_U_S » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:04 am

http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_recov ... assword%3F

This Document Helped me to retrieve my admin password.
Thanks a ton dude

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by yragrace » Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:23 pm

changing the value of md5 is not working...
any other solution??? please help me'..
thanks in advance'..

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by V_I_R_U_S » Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:27 am

Did you follow the procedure of the following link??

http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_recov ... assword%3F

It would work

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by yragrace » Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:42 am

yup i did. but nothing happened.

i would like it to try on my localhost, will it work there??

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by V_I_R_U_S » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:08 am

It was supposed to work..coz u will have the database there too

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by yragrace » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:13 am

:(( i dont know what to do anymore.,
still, its not working....

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by V_I_R_U_S » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:21 am

are u trying at ur localhost??

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by yragrace » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:43 pm

is it not effective on localhost????

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by dibyadel » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:37 am

I m facing similar password problems . In the above occasions, I tried to develop a bi-lingual websites and later found that my password is not working. Though it did n't say incorrect password, but the login pass failed to move but refreshed itself asking for login/password.
I checked in the phymyadmin and founf that the admin encrypted password is long i.e. 64 bit 8ec87e8ecbb37e8b6bb395da4985a719:aWa8Z3ZKMvVtvBQ3yg1eX8vIJ7Buylrz.
Is it in md5 format > ? I does not look like it.

How to encode a password for it? FYI, I tried with online md5 cryptography i.e. http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/ to generate password but it failed to work.
Pls suggest.
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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by niijosh » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:45 pm

pe7er wrote:You can use phpMyAdmin to view & edit the mos_users table?

insert
21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3
in the password field of the admin user.

it's the md5 result of the standard password "admin".
Did you get the password back because i have use the MD5 method but i cant get it what can i do to get it back

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by lafrance » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:48 pm

Hello!

please read and follow there step

http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_recov ... assword%3F
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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by niijosh » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:09 pm

lafrance wrote:Hello!

please read and follow there step

http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_recov ... assword%3F

Do you mean i should copy and paste this:

INSERT INTO `jos_users`
(`id`, `name`, `username`, `email`, `password`, `usertype`, `block`, `sendEmail`,
`gid`, `registerDate`, `lastvisitDate`)
VALUES (NULL, 'Administrator2', 'admin2', '[email protected]',
'd2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199',
'Super Administrator', 0, 1, 25, '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '0000-00-00 00:00:00');
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_aro` VALUES (NULL, 'users', LAST_INSERT_ID(), 0, 'Administrator', 0);
INSERT INTO `jos_core_acl_groups_aro_map` VALUES (25, '', LAST_INSERT_ID());

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by lafrance » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:15 pm

copy this for user = admin
433903e0a9d6a712e00251e44d29bf87:UJ0b9J5fufL3FKfCc0TLsYJBh2PFULvT

password = secret copy this
d2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199
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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by mweberjoomla » Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:37 pm

I followed instructions from

http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_recov ... assword%3F

and still can't login. The password seems to work - the message I get says "You do not have access to the administrator section of this site."

Any ideas?
Thanks, Mark

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by pe7er » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:45 pm

did you follow the instructions for "Change the Password in the Database" or for "Add a New Super Administrator User"?
I'd recommend adding a new Super Admin and try again.
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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by macgig » Sun Oct 10, 2010 3:48 pm

little tricky but I got it.... thanks

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by omerbilal » Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:16 am

Please run this query to get password.

UPDATE jos_users SET password=MD5('your password') WHERE username = "username"

thx..

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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by richardphilips » Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:58 am

I am not sure why every one wants to put new password as "admin", its not secure, yes i understand that the password can be changed later when you login and go to user manager.


The more precise query will be:
UPDATE jos_users SET password=MD5('your new password') WHERE username = "admin"

You can also go to that table jos_users and edit the record, just put the new password, there is drop down select MD5 in the functions column.

Try to login again :)
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Re: retrieve admin password?

Post by neeraj10786 » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:12 am

chutney wrote:How do I retrieve my admin password?  I've looked in the mysql, but it's all gobbledy gook...

very simple
just follow these points

http://www.teachmejoomla.net/joomla-mam ... sword.html


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