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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jominj on February 09, 2014, 10:26:59 pm

Title: Reset the Joomla Admin Password From phpMyAdmin
Post by: jominj on February 09, 2014, 10:26:59 pm

We can reset the Joomla admin password using phpMyAdmin. Follow the below steps to reset admin password.

• Access the phpMyAdmin in the browser
• Select the Joomla database from the list of databases. This will list database tables.
• Find and click on the table which have a suffix "_users".This table contains information about all the users.
• Click browse button on the top of the toolbar. Find the user name we have to change the password
• Press edit button for the corresponding row, and add the new password as
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  5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99

    this is encrypted format for the word "password". Then press save button
• Now we can login to the Joomla admin area using the password "password"

Note: Change the password to a strong password after login to the Joomla admin area.