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Support => cpg1.4.x Support => Older/other versions => cpg1.4 permissions => Topic started by: StevenD57 on September 08, 2006, 10:21:53 pm

Title: what happens if I forget the admin password?
Post by: StevenD57 on September 08, 2006, 10:21:53 pm

For a few minutes this morning I could not remember my coppermine admin password. I finally tried a few different passwords I commonly use and was fortunately able to get in. At that point I made a point of actually writing it down in my system-admin notebook but it got me to thinking about what options there might be if I actually could not remember the admin password permanently. When this happened I used phpMyAdmin to browse the coppermine db users table to get the name of the admin user but the password field there is indeed encrypted so that was no help.

I looked through the various coppermine FAQs and regular web based documentation but I did not see any mention of possible solutions to this problem.
I imagine I am not the first person this has happened to so what is the common advice here when someone has this problem?

Title: Re: what happens if I forget the admin password?
Post by: Nibbler on September 08, 2006, 10:30:22 pm

If you managed to find it in phpmyadmin then you can just set yourself a new one. It is an md5 hash.

Title: Re: what happens if I forget the admin password?
Post by: StevenD57 on September 09, 2006, 12:11:58 am

OK, so that was enough of a hint that I was able to research using google.
Thanks

Title: Re: what happens if I forget the admin password?
Post by: Nibbler on September 09, 2006, 12:21:14 am

Use the board search before hitting google, this has been discussed in detail recently.