Joomla lost password
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- Ian Beer
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- The only place I know of is from the MySQL database. It is sometimes possible to use on-line MD5 (?) encryption sites to decrypt the password, usually it is easier to use said site to encrypt a new one, then copy and paste that into the table instead.
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- Ian Beer
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I was afraid you were going to ask that. Using PhpMyAdmin open your database, in the list of tables find the jos_users table, depending on the version of PhpMyAdmin you are using, there may be a "browse" symbol to the left of it in the list, if there isn't click on the table, when it opens click on "browse" from the top menu, or the browse symbol at the bottom. When the table opens look at Administrator, on the right hand end of the field is the encrypted password, either copy that password and paste it into the likes of
http://md5encryption.com/?mod=encrypt
to try and get it decrypted. or use a site such as that to encrypt a new password, copy it, and then click the little pen tool next to the Administrator line to make the field editable and paste the new password in place of the old one, close PhpMyAdmin, and with any luck and a following wind you will be able to log in. It does work, take it from one who often forget not only the password, but the location of the little bit of paper on which the password is written.
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- Seda
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Thank you Ian.
I found the password on PhpMyAdmin,
paste in to encrypt place on this link
md5encryption.com/?mod=encrypt
It gave me 3 passwords.
1- Word (the I pasted)
2-MD5 Hash:
3-SHA1 Hash
I tried to copy and paste 2 and 3 passwords (seperatly) on PhpMyAdmin site.
Now, should I use the same password when I try to log in to administrator page? if so, it didnt work.
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- Max Miecchi
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- Do you have access to the frontend of the site? If so, and if the login module is visible, you can use the "forgotten password" link for the user "admin".
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- Seda
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That did work. I received a new password. But, it doesnt allow me to log in. I receive below error message. What's happening?
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(../tmp/sess_6ca2dc7f4c762534e2ad63de5563565b, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /home/thequee2/public_html/administrator/index2.php on line 37
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output
started at /home/thequee3/public_html/administrator/index2.php:37) in /home/thequee3/public_html/administrator/index2.php on line 37
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/thequee3/public_html/administrator/index2.php:37) in /home/thequee3/public_html/administrator/index2.php on line 37
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- Max Miecchi
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- I think the problem came when you pasted the passwords on your PhpMyAdmin. Can you restore the previous version?
- Last Edit: 17 years 3 months ago by Max Miecchi.
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- Bob Ateah
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- Next time just fire up your FTP application and open your configuration.php and you will see your password in there.
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