Any Advice On Password Recovery For Vbulletin Website

Hi, I have forgotten my own password to get into my Forums sections on my website. I wrote Netfirms (who my site is through) they said they had no access to that information so, I wrote Silverlime ( my hosting ) and they told me the same thing. So, I have a website that I can't remember MY OWN password to get into my Forums. I can get to my Cpanel fine just not into the website ( like a regular member would do ). Any sugesstions??? Helpppppppppp oh and thank you.

 

It is a Vbulletin powered site.

 

You can restore it from phpmyadmin from cpanel.

 

You can recover your lost admin password using following two ways:

[1] Use forgot password link.
[2] Follow this thread to recover vBulletin Admin password.

Kailash

 

Or Create a new account go to phpmyadmin and change the user group to admin group

 

You can't access your password trough PHPMyAdmin because it is encoded, to reset your password you have to get the file reset_pass that came with your Vbulletin download in the do_not_upload folder then run the script on your server and it'll reset the pass, easy as that !

 

If you do in this way it will allow you to login to admincp but you will not be able to see all options in admin panel.

Kailash

 

simply open it in phpmyadmin
edit the admin user in question,
goto a site like md5 crack and create an md5 password like so:
md5("mypassword") = 34819d7beeabb9260a5c854bc85b3e44
paste in the new md5 and save it then login as admin and use
change password to get a properly hashed one

 

Am I missing something or did you forget to click the lost password link?

 

i doubt vbulletin uses md5 hash to secure passwords

 

vB does in fact use md5 to secure passwords

 

Yes but its not a single md5 hash i think its like this

md5(md5(PASSWORD) . SALT);

 

You should copy password and salt of new account to old account

 

Yes thats possible too