Forgot Joomla Admin password

How do I create a new password? I forgot my old one, I had it written down on some paper but can't seem to find it. someone please help.

 

You can't exactly retrieve it. It is an md5. You can however reset it http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=10985

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

I went to the link and can someone please tell me how to reset the password step by step because i'm kind of lost here.

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i have some security holes in joomla and i don't know how to get them patched up, can someone please help me with that to.

 

Just create a new user, and use the password you want and copy over the hash and the salt to your original admin user in the database.

 

I haven't tried this method. What I did usually log into the database and change the password from there - as suggested above.

 

You can change your password in the data base with phpmyadmin

 

Make sure to hash it properly, if you change it through phpmyadmin.

 

Run this SQL on your phpmyadmin

change new_password with your desired password.

 

Found you Password in Mysql db,and use some MD5 translation it.

 

Just change the password using phpmyadmin.

 

If you have access to DB you can just register new user and retrieve password in md5 hash from db and after isert this value instead admin md5 hash

 

Yes, you just can create new password, can not get old password with phpmyadmin

 

joomla create a new admin and then you move all the important articles in the new joomla

trying to do

 

it's very easy go to Jos_users table in your Database .

Copy the md5 formatted password and convert with this tool

http://www.iwebtool.com/md5

you got your password now!!!!