By uphamg on

I am working on a clients website that has a drupal powered blog. The username or password though that we have on file though is not letting me get into the backend. All I am trying to do is remove one thing from the side navigation menu but I have no idea how to recover the password. Does anybody have a solution? Thanks in advance.

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sreyas’s picture

sreyas commented

You could reset the password for your super user using phpmyadmin.

1. Go to phpmyadmin
2. Go to the drupal database then the table users
3. User id 1 is the super user.
4. Edit that row and in password you need to enter the new password phrase.
5. You can create password phrase from http://md5encryption.com
6. Edit and save the password from the value you get above.
7. Now you can login using the new password.

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Ciril Sreedhar
Sreyas IT Solutions
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Itangalo’s picture

Itangalo commented

There is no way of getting the old password out of Drupal – that is encrypted in a way so not even Drupal can read it – but you can order a one-time login and set a new password.

At the login box there should be a "forgot password?" link (or somthing similar), that you can use. If that login box doesn't show, try going to /user – and if a tab for replacing passwords isn't shown there you can finally go to user/password.

You can use either username or e-mail address to get a one-time login.

Good luck!
//Johan Falk, NodeOne, Sweden

uphamg’s picture

uphamg commented

thanks for the advice...unfortunately I don't see a "forgot password" link anywhere for this site... the login page is http://amerimulch.com/admin if you want to see what I am looking at...

jaganmay4’s picture

jaganmay4 commented

You can easily change passwd by directly logging into mysql or using phpmyadmin

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

... is located in a subdirectory. Go to http://amerimulch.com/content/user and recover your password.

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Begun commented

If you have drush installed you can use the `drush uli [uid]`. This will generate a URL for a one time login link to a user account. Just copy and paste this link into your browser. This will log you in. Once logged in you can change your user account. For more information see the relevant drush command page documentation