Can't change Admin login details

Occasionally Web Wiz Forums owners forget login details to their Admin Account and therefore can not login to administrator Web Wiz Forums.

The problem is that passwords are 106bit one way encrypted for security reasons so hackers can not get hold of your password. This means passwords can not be recovered, however, before you completely panic there are some options available to you to reset your admin passwords.

The simplest way, if you have set an email address for the Admin Account and have the email features of Web Wiz Forums correctly setup and enabled, is to use the Forgotten Password page from the login page to request a new password be sent to the email address entered for the admin account.

If you are unable to request a new password by email then the last option is to manually reset the password in the database following the steps below:-

Open the database in a database management tool
Open the database table 'tblAuthor'
Find record with the 'Author_ID' with the value of '1', this is your Admin Account record
Copy and paste the following to the 'Username' field:-
administrator

Copy and paste the following to the 'Password' field:-
A85B3E67CFA695D711570FB9822C0CF82871903B

Copy and paste the following to the 'Salt' field:-
72964E7

Your Web Wiz Forums Admin Account username and password should now be reset to:-
Username: administrator
Password: letmein

When you use the existing member API it is best to leave the built in admin account as a forum only account and not associate it with a login from your own database. Then use this account purely for logging into the Admin Control Panel by going directly to the 'admin.asp' login page.

If you want to you can always place another member account that is associated with a login from your own system into the admin group.

Oh no, this could mean big problems. You should NEVER delete the built in Admin and Guest accounts as these are hard coded accounts and need to have the correct ID.

The built in Admin account needs to have the Arthor_ID of 1 as this field is set to auto increment you may find it difficult setting the Author_ID to 1

You can place anything you want for the moment into the User_code field as this will be updated when you update your password.

Sorry - I spoke too soon. Having replaced the database I logged in and ran through the configuration list - avatars to 'OFF' etc. On saving the changes I was prompted to upgrade to the Premium Edition.