If you forgot your Super Administrator password for your Joomla/Mambo, you can never recover your password because the passwords are hashed using MD5 algorithm. In other words, the passwords are encrypted.
However you can reset the value in the password field in the database. Set the password to a known value and then you may log-in using that new password. You can try to paste the following hash code to the password field. The password is ‘secret‘:
5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69
But to do this, you would have to find the field entry in the database. Some people have difficulty in locating the table or the database. That’s why I created a simple PHP script. All you have to do is to run the script from your server and it would allow you to specify your own password then it will automatically reset the password for you. You’ll have no hustle on finding the field from your database!
The script's interface to reset Joomla/Mambo admin password
Click here to download my script: adminreset.zip
How to use the script to reset your Joomla/Mambo password:
- Download and unzip the package to your computer (adminreset.zip)
- Upload the file adminreset.php into your server’s main folder where your Joomla/Mambo is installed.
- Execute the script like
http://yourserver.com/adminreset.php
- Follow the simple instruction in the script.
- After using the script, delete it from your server as other people might use it.
Did I emphasize that this script works for both Joomla 1.0.x and 1.5.x? Well it does…
