Admin password – i did my searching

  • im having an issue where each time i try to login to the admin acct, it will not accept the password. after viewing the user table in phpmyadmin, it seems that the md5 hash is not changing. so im thinking there is an issue in the php script that reads the hash value or translates it as compared to hash of the text password entered in the login field.

    that’s as far as i have got. of course, this means i am past the emergency.php solution or editing password directly in phpmyadmin. as i said, the issue does not seem to lie in the stored value being altered.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Try the FTP method: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_FTP

    I’ll take a look into the other ones and see if I can reproduce that.

    Thread Starter BuildMyWeb

    (@buildmyweb)

    thank you for the reply. nothing useful comes of that :/

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Are you sure your admin account is number 1?

    Heck, are you sure you’re editing the right account?

    Does it not email you or anything when you reset password?

    Thread Starter BuildMyWeb

    (@buildmyweb)

    it emails everytime we reset. the user account is indeed id=1. i checked the wp-config.php file to make sure the table prefix matches with the one im editing and it does.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    So you get the new password and you can’t login still?

    This is a left field suggestion. Does your SQL ID have access to the database? That is FULL read/write/delete/everything access?

    Thread Starter BuildMyWeb

    (@buildmyweb)

    i noticed something important, i think. once i reset the pw, i can login. i can logout and log right back in with np.

    it is once i close the browser and try to log in again, it will not let me back in.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    it is once i close the browser and try to log in again, it will not let me back in.

    Does your browser save passwords? if so, you may want to force kill the saved passwords.

    Thread Starter BuildMyWeb

    (@buildmyweb)

    doesnt help ??

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Something’s wrong on your PC, most likely. There’s nothing in WORDPRESS that would (or should be able to) care if you log off and back on your BROWSER.

    Of course it remains possible it’s WP. Start with turning off plugins on WP and trying a different browser.

    Thread Starter BuildMyWeb

    (@buildmyweb)

    its actually a client im working on this for. he had the problem in IE. ive since replicated it in IE9, FF, and Chrome.

    i have already shut down all plugins and it didnt help.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Have you tried running a repair on the DB via phpMyAdmin?

    Thread Starter BuildMyWeb

    (@buildmyweb)

    no i have not. what would be the goal there? i dont understand what we would be repairing. ive actually never used the command so im not sure how that works.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    The goal would be that PERHAPS there’s a problem in the DB (since this is a non-reproducable problem outside your site). You’ve already done the plugins song and dance, what’s left is a theme issue or a DB issue.

    Unless you tried to ‘reset admin password’ via the functions.php and never removed that line, there’s NO reason this should happen.

    Thread Starter BuildMyWeb

    (@buildmyweb)

    i removed the functions.php line.

    ill backup the db and try repairing. thanks for all of your helps thus far. very tenacious ??

    Thread Starter BuildMyWeb

    (@buildmyweb)

    repaired all the tables. reset the pw. it still isnt working.

    i can logout and log back in np with the same pw. if i close the tab or browser altogether, i cannot log back in.

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