Lost admin password.
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Topic: Lost admin password.
Posted By: siktireli
Subject: Lost admin password.
Date Posted: 24 November 2005 at 1:26pm
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I know this may seem stupid but I have lost my admin password. It
was stored in my Palm Treo and I use so many passwords that when I
broke the Treo I lost all my passwords. I tried recovering the password through wwForum.mdb but it looks as though the password is encrypted. Is there any way I can reset it without damaging the database? Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Mike |
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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 24 November 2005 at 1:57pm
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please do a search next time as this has been cobvered over and over again, you need ot downlad a new database and copy the salt and password values from the new database to the old database record 1. then your password will be set back to letmein |
Posted By: likefuture
Date Posted: 24 November 2005 at 8:16pm
| another way, if you have your own server, you can register a new user, and open the database, set the user as an admin. you can delete your old admin account, or use the new admin account to generate a new password for it. |
Posted By: siktireli
Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 3:03am
I actually did do a search and couldn't find anything on it. Maybe I was just too impatient. Thanks for the response! I'll give that a shot. |
dj air wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 6:24am
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I did a quick serach for 'Lost Password' on this forum and after less
than 30 secounds of looking I found your anwser in the third post I
looked in:- http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=5811&KW=lost+password&PN=0&TPN=2 - http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=5811&KW=lost+password&PN=0&TPN=2 There are other methods and I'm sure I would have found these as well if I had spent a few more minutes looking. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 9:12am
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Couldn't you just use the "Lost Password" facility to email you a reset password? Or doesn't that work for the admin account?
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Posted By: JJLatWebWiz
Date Posted: 26 November 2005 at 1:35am
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I've never had to test it, but can't you also just click the "Forgot your password?" link and have the forum send you a new password? Doesn't that also work for the admin? ------------- p.s. I'm not affiliated with Web Wiz Guide in any way. I'm just an average Web Wiz user repaying my debt for the use of their fine forum by trying to help other Web Wiz Guide users. |
Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 27 November 2005 at 10:50am
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i belive it does also work with the admin account but cant be to sure. |
Posted By: balearicjobs
Date Posted: 29 November 2005 at 11:34am
| Yes that works, I just tried it and it sent me a new password. |