Admin password got screwed

Started by nwobhm, August 12, 2010, 02:50:01 AM

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nwobhm

I just recently made lagre upgrade smf 2.0 rc2 to smf 2.0 rc3.
While uprgading the forum, I thought I mistyped admin password because I couldn't get the upgrading to start. I was able to start the upgrade when I bypassed the admin security check. But before that i somehow messed up my admin password.

Upgrading went fine, but then I tried to access my forum with my admin pass, I coudn't get thru, because of the messed password.
I also tried to get new password with "password reminder" by giving the email, but I got a message... "session closed... check cookies" or something like that.

Can I re-set the admin password with phpmyadmin?

xenovanis

Try running repair_settings and make sure all recommended values for cookies and sessions are entered.  You might even want to try changing the cookie name.

What is repair_settings.php?
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

nwobhm

Thanks! It worked!
I needed to change the cookie name :) then I was able to reset admin password.

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