password gone

kaediem · Post by **kaediem** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:24 pm

I've searched the forum and although I've found answers about the admin password resetting it all seems to involve the database and I have no idea how to access the database or even what to do with it when I get there - if I can get there.

I was changing some personal settings and something went terribly wrong and I don't know what my password is anymore.

I really need a paint by numbers instruction on what to do to reset or get my password back.

Thanks in advance

Lisa

azel · Post by **azel** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:53 am

Go to your database through phpMyAdmin (or whichever method you use). Click on serendipity_authors and then Browse. Delete the characters in the password field and type in your password. Save and then you should be able to log in.

zeropointe · Post by **zeropointe** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:44 pm

azel wrote:Go to your database through phpMyAdmin (or whichever method you use). Click on serendipity_authors and then Browse. Delete the characters in the password field and type in your password. Save and then you should be able to log in.

got anything else? didn't work

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:16 am

That's because the instructions said to insert the password in plain text. You actually need to encode it with MD5. There should be an option to do that in phpMyAdmin, I believe; if not, try Googling up an online MD5 encoder.