Thread: Reset Admin Password

You can access and change your password in your database using phpMyAdmin. The admin password is located in your Admins table. It will be encrypted in MD5 format. If your "expert" set up your site using password encryption for your users, then you should just be able to go to your Profiles table and copy and paste your own password into the Admins table password field. If not, there are a number of Admin password reset utilities that will do it for you. Do a search for password reset or such on here or look on boonex's website for some free ones.

Hope this helps!

You will need to go locate the password in phpmyadmin. It will probably be MD5 encrypted, so it will just look like random numbers and letters. Once you know where the password is stored at in the database (I do not know offhand), you can run an SQL Query like:

Code:

UPDATE example_users SET password=MD5('yourpassword') WHERE user = "Super Administrator";

change "example_users" to be the name of the database table where the member passwords are stored.

change "Super Administrator" to be the log in name of the admin, which I presume is just admin.

This query will replace the old admin password with your new, desired password, and it will also be MD5 encrypted.