I Forgot My Joomla Username And Password, What Should I Do…?

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1. Drag X says:

   January 23, 2010 at 12:34 pm

   go to phpmyadmin and browse to your database. go to the “jos_users” table.. click on the “Edit” button on the administrator user… in the ‘password’ field, you’ll see a long string of random characters.. delete it and enter your changed password(also be sure to select ‘MD5′ from the ‘functions’ dropdown) .. and update the row…
2. G says:

   January 23, 2010 at 6:37 am

   A. You cannot recover the existing password, but you can reset it to a new password.
   The passwords are stored using a one-way MD5 hash which prevents recovering the password.
   But you can reset the password by editing the password field in the database.
   Set the password to a known value and then you may log-in using that new password.
3. Glenn W says:

   January 23, 2010 at 1:10 am

   Go into msql where you created the database and use the phpadmin tool to view the tables.
   Browse the jos_users table and it will show you the user accounts that were created. Maybe seeing the username will jog your memory as to the password. If you still don’t remeber it just do a search for ‘reset joomla admin password’. That will lead you through the rest. I’ve done this countless times. :)
   Regards,
   Glenn
   http://www.joomlarenegade.com