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Topic: I forgot my admin password

Hi everyone, i'm new in use punbb. I have a forum inside of my blog, http://novatosflash.com/foro , and i forgot my admin password... and i don't receive an email when i request password reset. Anyway, I login my hosting and i have seen the tables to store user names, passwords, IP addresses, etc.. Using phpmyadmin, passwords appear as if they were encrypted or encoded, even appear my username with a password very long, will be my password encrypted. And if so, how can I return my password to normal? Thanks and greetings.

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Re: I forgot my admin password

For 1.3: you can install the forum in another folder or local machine. After that copy the hash of password to the old db. This is the easiest way. smile

  • Registered: 2009-01-03
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Re: I forgot my admin password

¡Thanks! padizar, your idea worked.

  • Utchin
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Re: I forgot my admin password

For 1.2: go to a MD5 converter such as http://md5.eikern.net/ and changing it in the database. cool

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Re: I forgot my admin password

Utchin wrote:

The quicker and easier method could have been going to a MD5 converter such as http://md5.eikern.net/ and changing it in the database. cool

Which is exactly what I do.

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Re: I forgot my admin password

That's a good tool.

  • User33
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Re: I forgot my admin password

I thought the forum used SHA1?

  • Utchin
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Garciat wrote:

I thought the forum used SHA1?

I know 1.2 used MD5, However i dont know what 1.3 uses, I guess Ill have a look!

Edit: So it does, salted sha1. So yeah the best method would be as sudugested for 1.3.

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  • User33
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Re: I forgot my admin password

You could get your salt from your user row then SHA1(password + SHA1(salt))

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Re: I forgot my admin password

When i said:

and i don't receive an email when i request password reset.

Really, i receive an email, but there isn't content, look this picture of my email account:
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/7683/pantallazoth3.th.jpg

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  • Utchin
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Re: I forgot my admin password

Make sure that the mail templates in your forum folder are correct and are the right size.

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  • Registered: 2009-01-03
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Re: I forgot my admin password

Could you explain me of form more detailed? Sorry for ignorance, I have very little time using this script

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Re: I forgot my admin password

Your language pack probably doesn't have email templates. They're supposed to be on '{yourforum}/lang/{yourlanguage}/mail_templates/'.

  • Registered: 2009-01-03
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Re: I forgot my admin password

My languages packs (english and spanish) do have email templates and it is in place that you say, there are the messages to remember password, change the email account of the forum, private message notification, and so on.

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Re: I forgot my admin password

Probably have to see with the permissions of each file, the folder "lang" have permission 755... and the files inside of folder "lang" have permission 644, that's correct?