{"id":134,"date":"2010-10-27T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T07:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santoshkori.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2012-03-05T22:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T13:25:26","slug":"how-to-recover-your-admin-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/how-to-recover-your-admin-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recover your admin password"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The passwords are stored using a one-way MD5 hash which prevents recovering the existing password, but you can reset it to a new password by editing the password field in the database.<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The password is stored in the MySQL database jos_users table password field (change this for your table prefix if different). Use a MySQL utility such as phpMyAdmin or MySQL Query Browser to edit this field:<\/p>\n<p>1. open the table<\/p>\n<p>2. find your admin username and select that row for editing<\/p>\n<p>3. set the password to a known value and then you may log-in using that new password. The password must be hashed, you cannot simply enter text into this field.<\/p>\n<p>Set the password to a known value<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; password = &#8220;this is the MD5 hashed password&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; admin = 21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; secret = 5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; OU812 = 7441de5382cf4fecbaa9a8c538e76783<\/p>\n<p>Paste the hashed password into the field, save the change, and log-in using the new password.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately change your password to something more secure!<\/p>\n<p>or . . .<\/p>\n<p>Set the password to your own value<\/p>\n<p>Online MD5 tools \u2013 here are a couple online tools to create MD5 hashed values:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; JavaScript MD5 \u2013 http:\/\/pajhome.org.uk\/crypt\/md5\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; MD5er \u2013 http:\/\/www.md5er.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Use the tools to create your own strong hashed password.<\/p>\n<p>Paste the result into the password field, save, and log-in with your new password.<\/p>\n<p>Free MD5 utilities \u2013 for download<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; SlavaSoft HashCalc \u2013 http:\/\/www.slavasoft.com\/hashcalc\/overview.htm<\/p>\n<p>Download and use to make your own hashed password.<\/p>\n<p>Other MD5 tools<\/p>\n<p>There are many free MD5 tools online and as free downloadable utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Google for &#8220;MD5 hash tool&#8221; and you will find many available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passwords are stored using a one-way MD5 hash which prevents recovering the existing password, but you can reset it to a new password by editing the password field in the database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}