In order to reset the Joomla admin password, you just need to apply the following steps:
Joomla 1.5
- Open the database using phpMyAdmin and go to the table, jos_users . (replace jos_ with your own table prefix if this is different than the default).
- Select the record for the administrator account – by default this is user 62 (admin).
- Copy and paste the MD5 # below to the password field and save the changes: 21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3
- Logon to the back end http://yoursitedomain.com/administrator using the username admin and the password admin in the login box.
- Select the user you have just logged in with using this password and username and change the password for the user to something else. This is extremely important otherwise your website might get hacked.
I applied these same steps to a Joomla 1.0 site and works fine for me, but you need to consider that there could be many situations related with the encryption procedure that could make your change to fail in Joomla 1.0 just because the encryption algorithm is not corresponding with the ‘admin’ word.
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It didn’t work. I tried both with the regular username and with “admin” as the username. Password both times was “admin”. No go. What now?
it doesn’t work for Joomla 1.5…
thanks! that worked seemlessly.
For salted hash try this tool: http://www.tooljo.com/joomla-15-password-hash-generator