#25 - Forgot your Joomla super administrator password?
This happened to me quite a few times before I learnt to store my passwords in a safe place. However, if you do forget or lose your Joomla super administrator password, there is a very easy way to reset it to a default password (admin). Use the steps below to set the password to admin.
Joomla 1.5
1. Open the database using phpMyAdmin or database explorer and select the table, jos_users . (replace jos_ with your own table prefix if this is different than the default).
2. Select the record for the administrator account - by default this is user 62.
3. Copy and paste the MD5 # below and save the changes
21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3
5. Logon to the back end http://yoursitedomain.com/administrator using the username admin and the password admin in the login box.
6. Select the user you have just logged in with using this password and username and change the password for the user to something else. This is extremely important otherwise your website might get hacked.
7. Check all is ok with Front-end access by opening your site http://yourdomainname.com and logging in using the username admin and the new password you have set it in the back end.
Joomla 1.0
You need access to your MySQL database, via phpmyadmin or otherwise. For Joomla version up to 1.0.12 you need to execute the following query. The strange password is actually the password "admin" encrypted with the encyption algorithm Joomla uses.
UPDATE `jos_users` SET `name` = 'admin', `password` = '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3' WHERE `id` =62 LIMIT 1 ;
For 1.0.13, you need to run a query with a different value for the password, which is below because the encryption algorithm has changed.
UPDATE `jos_users` SET `name` = 'admin', `password` = 'af9083d4b82dbc0745b124db3b3cf15d:M0WuLowO4rtRTddG' WHERE `id` =62 LIMIT 1 ;
Once you've run this query you need to logon to the administrator backed and set the password to something more complicated. Leaving the password as "admin" will result in a serious risk to your site!
If you're running an older version of Joomla or Mambo, you might need to change jos_users to mos_users.
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