Comments on: Reset Mambo Admin Password

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:16:48 +0000

I have done all of this and I have added a new user but no matter what I do I still get an error pop up message saying invalid username, password or access level. I’ve moved my mambo server to a new host and backed up the database before doing the move.. I did a new install (version 4.5.3) and then uploaded all the files (templetes, images etc) the front end works fine, but the admin section cant be access. I’ve tried both approaches with the sql string and just changing the password (Yes MD5) and nothing. If I can’t access the admin I will have no choice but to reinstall but a lot of work will be lost. Any ideas????

By: MCA

MCA — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:54:55 +0000

thanks pauline, it’s also doable.
but sometimes people do incorrect select to encrypted password.

By: Pauline

Pauline — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:01:17 +0000

Hey! Thanks for the tip!

An even easier way to do it if you have phpMyAdmin is to just replace the encrypted password with:
21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3

Then your new password is admin. You don’t actually have to run the sql command.

By: MCA

MCA — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:18:41 +0000

heheh, if you forgot phpmyadmin password, just fire up mysql command prompt and reset root mysql password to blank

By: abe

abe — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 08:01:58 +0000

nice tips..
how bout if we do not know the password of PHPMyAdmin bang?
hmm.. simple.. re-install