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    Posted: 23 September 2004 at 9:28pm
Hi guys,

I did a silly thing.  I changed my administrator password and another one of my user passwords the other night and forgot what I put for my administrator account.

How can I change/rest the password or find out what it is?  Do I have to look in the database?  How do I do this without messing up the forum?

Thanks.

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James
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Passwords are 160bit one way encrypted to prevent hackers from gaining login info.

If you have a valid email address for your admin account and email functions on the board are enabled then you can use the forgotten password feature on the login page to have a new password emailed to you.

If you don't have this then there is a work around that has been posted a number of times if you do a search of the forum.

It envolves editing the database directly and copying and pasting the Password and Salt field from an account that you do know the password for.
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