Password Recovery Using PHPMyAdmin

[weblord]

Access phpMyAdmin in your control panel and browse for the following within (prefix_admin) in your database:

adminid password
xxxxxx c?7889999c913bvgrggfgf8a682356677fgd

Change the password value to exactly "5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69" without quotes.

Go back to the Admin Interface in your directory and login using your OLD username and the password "secret" - without quotes.

Then change the password again to whatever you like.

[geekspassion]

wooot! workws like a charm.. this will be very handy when a script kiddie hacks your forum.. thank you very much

[weblord]

you're welcome it will work on all sites that have admin logins not only to forums, as long as you have phpmyadmin, but i doubt that you don't have, because it's already free and opensource on most cpanel accounts.

[curriegrad2004]

That only works if the webapp is using MD5 as a password encryption meathod. Some of them use different hashes for storing passwords, but MD5 is the most common because of the flexibility of the hash itself. Or heck, you can even insert a MD5 type hash in the password field!