Forgotton admin password

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Topic: Forgotton admin password

Posted By: Qcor21
Subject: Forgotton admin password
Date Posted: 12 February 2005 at 10:34am

I forgot my admin password and couldn't find a way of changing it, I then downloaded a new web wiz forum after deleting the old one, however it still takes up my old password, is there any way that I can still access the forum? I'm using an Access 2000 db.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 February 2005 at 11:13am

The password is 160bit one way encrypted before being stored in the database and therefore can not be recovered.

However, if you have email features enabled and a valid email address entered for the admin account you can use the forgotten password feature to get a new password emailed to you.

If you don't have email notification enabled then you will need to edit the database by hand in MS Access using the following instructions:-

Open the table 'tblAuthor'
Find record number 1, this will be the admin account
Enter 'A85B3E67CFA695D711570FB9822C0CF82871903B' into the Password field
Enter '72964E7' into the Salt field
Save the database

This will now set the password back to the default 'letmein' password that originally came with the forum

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Posted By: Qcor21
Date Posted: 14 February 2005 at 6:53am

Thanks that worked and I can now log in.

Posted By: valkas
Date Posted: 21 April 2005 at 8:36pm

I had the same problem. I used your (-boRg-) advise. But after uploading *.db file to the server my forum not working at all. I tryed to upload even original file the same result.

The page cannot be displayed

HTTP 500 - Internal server error

Please help! What is wrong?

Posted By: valkas
Date Posted: 21 April 2005 at 8:50pm

This is how it shows in IE

Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005'

The search key was not found in any record.

/includes/active_users_inc.asp, line 130

Please help!

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 April 2005 at 5:31am

This means that your Access database has become coruupted.

You need to download and open the database in MS Access and choose 'compact and repair database' from the tools menu.

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Posted By: valkas
Date Posted: 23 April 2005 at 2:46am

Thanks! It was easy Emoticons