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[Brian O'Connor]

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply, there was something wrong with the phpMyAdmin
setup on the server.

I changed the md5 hash of the password to what you gave me (as well as other
strings as well), but I'm getting an incorrect username / password.

Is there something else in the user table that would prevent the admin from
logging in?

Thanks,
Brian

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>wrote:

> Take a look in configuration.php and grab the following variables:
>
>    $host
>    $user
>    $db
>    $password
>
> That is your database access information. Now to change your admin
> password. When you connect to your database, go to a table called
> jos_users and look for the admin user:
>
>    select id, name, username, password from jos_users;
>
> Somewhere in those results should be a user called 'admin' in the
> 'username' column. Now change that password to 'changeme' like this,
> and note that I had to run the string 'changeme' through MD5 first as
> all passwords in Joomla are hashed:
>
>    update jos_users set password = '4cb9c8a8048fd02294477fcb1a41191a'
> where username = 'admin';
>
> Now you can login to the Joomla backend as admin / changeme, and
> IMMEDIATELY change your password.
>
> -- Mitch
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Brian O'Connor <gatzby3jr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  > Hey Guys
> >
> > This is slightly off topic but I don't know where else to turn.
> >
> > I just inherited a client who had their site developed in Joomla, and
> when
> > it came time for the developer to turn over the access things apparently
> > went south and the administrative password for Joomla was never given to
> the
> > client.  Now, he can't update his site.  He has access to the server with
> > all the source code, so I'm relatively sure the password can be reset.
> > However, I'm having trouble finding the variables I need in order to
> connect
> > tot he database and reset the variables.
> >
> > where do I look in order to find out what database information the site
> is
> > using, and once I find that file, what specific variables am I supposed
> to
> > look at?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Brian O'Connor
> >
> > --
> > Brian O'Connor
> >
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Brian O'Connor
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