Reseting admin password

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Piata
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Reseting admin password

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I have access to SFTP and the DB. What's the easiest way to reset my password?

I tried encrypting a new password with bcrypt and dropping it into the DB but that doesn't appear to work.

It's surprisingly hard to find any recent information about this subject.
erAck
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Re: Reseting admin password

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Try if this works better:

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php -r 'echo password_hash("YourPassword", PASSWORD_BCRYPT) . "\n";'
and ensure the table's hashtype field has value 2 (old 1 would be sha1 that would have to be converted).
Piata
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Re: Reseting admin password

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Thanks for the reply! I ended up creating a php file with the following:

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<?php
    $username = "admin-username";
    $password = "newpassword";
    include 'serendipity_config.inc.php';
    echo serendipity_db_query("UPDATE {$serendipity['dbPrefix']}authors SET password = '" . serendipity_hash($password) . "', hashtype=2 WHERE username = '" . serendipity_db_escape_string($username) . "'");
    echo "Password changed.";
?>
But I assume your solution would also work and might have been faster.
erAck
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Re: Reseting admin password

Post by erAck »

Nice automated solution. The essential part is that serendipity_hash() calls password_hash($string, PASSWORD_BCRYPT).

Now why did I find that now in my snippets collection as well, it must had been published somewhere and I didn't think of.

Anyway, glad it works.
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