[Dclug] [Novalug] any Joomla! folks out there? phpadmin perhaps??

[William Morse]

Dear  Megan,

Using phpmyadmin and the MD5 function on the password field works on my
Joomla 1.5 installation.

Here's the SQL: 

UPDATE `joomla15`.`jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( 'foobar' ) WHERE
`jos_users`.`id` =62 LIMIT 1 ;

In this case the id 62 is the admin user.



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William Morse

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Megan Larko
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 3:21 PM
To: dclug; NOVALUG
Subject: [Novalug] any Joomla! folks out there? phpadmin perhaps??

Hi,

I have spent all day today trying to get into the Joomla 1.5 I set-up on
my system yesterday.
I left yesterday having installed the web / CMS software and I had a
sample  / dummy page similar to the web page generated by apache when
httpd (apache2) is successfully installed but has no content.

I very carefully had typed the admin password in the Joomla set-up
sequence (and its verification). 
  Upon attempting to log in today I received the messages from the
...Joomla/administrator web login screen "User name and password do not
match".

I have spent the remained of today looking on the web for solutions.   I
have tried several 
including installing phpmyadmin and accessing the Joomla database to
change the admin password and 
even running mysql on the commmand line and UPDATE -ing the 'admin'
user.   Nothing.  The  Joomla db 
table has the Joomla user "published" flag set to 1 which is what the
web pages indicated.  I tried using phpmyadmin web interface to the
Joomla db to edit admin and set the password string to a 
sample hash posted on the web page.   Still no change.

The most-useful web page as far as what to try was here:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432&t=384030

Does anyone know how to get into the Joomla administration page / get
the admin UID and password to match?

megan

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