Cannot login as admin even after editing password in MySQL since email failed

  • I went to log in as admin.

    Since I had repeatedly installed WP, I had reveived a number of “New WordPress Blog” email notifications. I had deleted most and thought I had chosen the most recent for the correct password. However, I got an incorrect password error when I went to login.

    I tried the email route for lost password. The second message is supposed to give me a new password. What I got instead was this in the message body:

    Password Lost and Changed for user: admin

    That’s all. Nothing followed.

    So, I search the forum, and found a reference to a page which explained how to go into the MySQL tables:

    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/

    phpmyadmin on my ISP’s server is a bit different, but I did find where to edit the password for admin.

    The password that was already there was very long, as if it has been concatenated (reapeadly adde to forming a long string). I changed it to something simple, then went back to verify and it was indeed changed.

    However, I still get ‘incorrect password’ error when I try to log in.

    Any suggestions?

    BTW, my ISP uses an old version of MySQL. He is not going to update it until he puts on a nes server sometime this winter.

    My blog has been working fine with MySQL 3.23, except perhaps for the fact that I wasn’t able to create sub-categories.

    Hope someone can help,

    Cris

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  • Thread Starter crispino

    (@crispino)

    Sorry, I meant to say “except perhaps for the fact that I wasn’t able to create sub-sub-categories” rather than “sub-categories”.

    Thread Starter crispino

    (@crispino)

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    I have found that when I do use the email method to change password, it does generate a new encrypted password and activation code which I can see my logging into the MySQL data base.

    So that part works OK. But what happens is that the second email does not contain a new password.

    I tried copying the encrypted value for the password from the MySQL table and then going to wp-login.php and entering:
    ‘MD5:<long string of characters copied from password field in MySQL data base>’
    but still I get password error.

    I am totally bloched from administering my blog.

    Hope someone can help!

    Thread Starter crispino

    (@crispino)

    I have (semi) resolved this problem myself. This is for anyone who finds this thread on a search.

    I found simple instructions on how to change my password with phpMyAdmin. First hit on a google search for md5 + phpmyadmin

    If the password is stored encrypted with MD5, how do I change it? …

    https://www.karakas-online.de/EN-Book/phpmyadmin-navigation-bar-structure.html

    What is not resolved is why the send new password function is not working. Maybe it has to do with the old version of MySQL on the server (ver 3)?

    Perhaps you didn’t read Podz’s article till the end (tamba2…) – it says the same about the MD5 ??

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