On 1/16/2013 5:58 PM, Fornax wrote:
Hi folks. I set up a Habari 0.8 instance for my wife last year. She made
a few posts, then totally forgot about it. Now she's interested in using
it again, but she's forgotten the password. The password reset option
would be nice, but I don't know where to configure the SMTP so that it
can actually send. Can anyone help me out? I need to either configure
email so the reminder can be sent, or recover/reset her account password
from the database.
I did see one post from a few years ago that looked useful, but the
script it referenced (https://www.habariproject.org/utils/ssha512.php)
either doesn't exist anymore, or I don't know how to use it.
Yes, it looks like that page was axed when we last transferred hosts.
Habari uses the built-in PHP methods for sending email, which are not
SMTP unless you've configured PHP quite differently than I've usually
seen it.
It's probably more reliable when you don't have the email configured to
set a new password directly into the database. What you need to do is
submit the new password to the sha1() function and store that result in
the database. You should then change your password to something from
within Habari, which will store the new password more securely.
If you can't make your own sha1 hashes, here's the sha1 hash for the
word "password": 5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8
Just be sure to change that immediately after you use it to log in.
Owen
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