Password reset

Sigh.. I searched forum for the dolphin 7 password reset and didn't find any.

I screwed up. I put down the password of the beta 6 install. I didn't have it on me when I tried accessing the admin center so I clicked on lost password? on members login page.Put in my admin email address and system reports it was sent.

I never got the password via email. I figure that I haven't set up the email config part.

At some point, I found the right password that I wrote down. Tried logging via members login page and the administrator login page. It did not work. Puzzled???

I asked myself this question, "when I input my admin email address via lost password. Does it reset and send me that password to my email address?"

Please advise on password reset for dolphin 7 because the method used for dolphin 6 does not work as a lot of things changed since then.

Well, I searched the forum even more, Found 2 more topics addressing the same issue:

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/topic/Cant-Get-Lost-Passwords.htm

Apparently, it was added to trac last july but dont see a solution yet.

Caltrade had the same problem, however no one seem to know of a method yet:

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/?action=goto&topic_id=Recovering-admin-password-in-D7

One thing to note... I never did a logout of my admin account and did not access admin center on dolphin administration login page yet.I just closed the browser. I wonder if that can be duplicated but just dont wanna have to reinstall everything again the hard way.

The password seems to be encoded with md5...

For change it go in PhpMyAdmin, open the Profiles table, edit the line of your admin user, make a backup copy of your actual md5 hashed password (save it in a text file), go in a web site that translate string in md5 (I've used this: http://www.iwebtool.com/md5 ) write your new password in the text field and click Encrypt, take the output string and put it into phpmyadmin (in the Password textbox), save the row clicking Execute (er Save, I don't know, I'm using Italian version), then via FTP clear the cache folder and the cache_public folder, except .htaccess file if there are any.

Now you can login with your admin account with your new password

Another way is to create a new user, after this, in phpmyadmin open the "Profiles" table,edit the row of the created user, In the Role textbox put the number 3, then via FTP clear the cache folder and the cache_public folder, except .htaccess file if there are any.

Now this user is an admin...

Have a nice day

 It will create a new password and sent it via mail, because the original password was encrypted with md5 hash and they can't be recovered, this is for security purpose, if someone take your db profiles user in illegal way (hacking, sql injection and other), they can't know users password...

For example:

Letter a will be 0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661 and is impossible to decrypt it...you have to try all combination...

Ah! I had already used a md5 gernator site but didn't work. However, clearing out both cache folders like you suggested worked.

Thanks man