{"id":248,"date":"2006-04-04T19:19:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T00:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.33.66\/wp\/?p=248"},"modified":"2006-04-04T19:19:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T00:19:47","slug":"reset-mambo-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"reset mambo password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>reset mambo password<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mambo \/ Joomla passwords cannot be recovered as they are set using a one-way hash function (MD5). However they can be reset to new values.<\/p>\n<p>The user information is stored in the MySQL database (obviously) in the mos_users (for MAMBO) or jos_users (for JOOMLA). The prefix (mos or jos) can be configured and may be named differently for your system.<\/p>\n<p>Using phpMyAdmin<br \/>\nIn phpMyAdmin select the database for your Mambo \/ Joomla system on the left combo-box. Then choose the mos_users (or as appropriate) table and select browse. Click on edit icon (pencil) for the row where the username is admin.<\/p>\n<p>In the password row under Function column set the function to MD5. Set the Value to your chosen password. Save it (by clicking on Go) and you are done.<\/p>\n<p>Using MySQL commandline or GUI<br \/>\nWith MySQL you can execute the following command in mysql command line or gui:<br \/>\nUPDATE mos_users SET password = MD5( &#8216;Your Password&#8217; ) WHERE username = &#8216;admin&#8217;;<br \/>\nNote: Change Your Password to your password (obviously).<\/p>\n<p>And you are done! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reset mambo password<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}