Recovering WordPress password
anomit | May 8, 2007For those of you on a free hosting and managing their own wordpress installation, you must be lacking mail server support.Now suppose you lose your login password, the one that WordPress supplies you after the installation, what do you do? You can’t reset your password through e-mail as you don’t have a SMTP server configured for you. No need to panic. However basic your plan maybe, you must have phpMyAdmin installed on the server. Fire it up from the cpanel (depends on the hosting provider) and browse the wordpress database (oni_wordpress in my case). Now browse the wp_users table by clicking on the browse icon.
Now, edit the given entry by clicking on the pen icon and then you see a few fields. See the user_pass field? Thats where the MD5 hashed password is stored. To put in your new password, just type the plaintext password in value and from the Function dropdown list, choose MD5 and then click on Go. Note that you can change your login name from here also.
Hey wait. This isn't exactly recovering, its making a new
Harsh | June 18, 2007Hey wait. This isn’t exactly recovering, its making a new one.
And I went searching a way to reverse MD5 back
Harsh | June 18, 2007And I went searching a way to reverse MD5 back into strings
Ah, whatever......its almost fkin impossible trying to recover a hashed
anomit | June 23, 2007Ah, whatever……its almost fkin impossible trying to recover a hashed password.
You know what that amounts to, decrypting a MD5 hashed password ….
if your noob webhosting doesnt even have phpmyadmin try this http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/05/22/wp-emergency-password-recovery/ :-)
hullap | October 12, 2008if your noob webhosting doesnt even have phpmyadmin
try this http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/05/22/wp-emergency-password-recovery/
That was written quite sometime ago when I was on
anomit | October 12, 2008That was written quite sometime ago when I was on a free web hosting.