Recovering a lost Joomla! password

If you are one of those people who work on tons of  websites, and do not have a formal password policy, more often than not you will sometimes forget your Joomla! administrator password. If the administrator password has been hacked or you have forgotten it , you are locked out and you do not have access to the Joomla! backend there is no need to be desperate: you can set a new password using phpMyAdmin.

1. Access phpMyAdmin (from cPanel)
2. In the left panel, access the Joomla! database
3. Now, in phpMyAdmin are displayed all Joomla! tables. Look for the jos_users table (the tables are alphabetically ordered)
4. Click on the jos_users table and Browse. Here you will find the administrator user.
5. Click to edit the administrator user. For the 5th field “Password” select MD5 Function, delete the value and write a new password. The password can be modified later from the Joomla! backend
6. Hit the “Go” button to save the changes.
   

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