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.pir...@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 <gatzby...@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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > -- Brian O'Connor
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