Emm... Is there any way to recovery the admin password of 2.2.0 beta?

[sychn]

Hello,

When the beta released, it was too late in my time zone, a moment ago I want to login to the ACP and I did my best to remember the admin password but failed.

I have set some changes in ACP and I really don't want to reinstall it, does anyone has any way to recovery the admin password?

many thanks.

[Alex]

Go to phpMyAdmin, select the database, prefix_members, edit user id 1 (Yours) in password field type the password you want, and in the dropdown box (Type) select md5.

Not 100% if it works with IPB but it works with other software that uses md5

[Guest]

That won't work with IPB.

[Mark]

just use the forgotten password feature

[sychn]

Go to phpMyAdmin, select the database, prefix_members, edit user id 1 (Yours) in password field type the password you want, and in the dropdown box (Type) select md5.

Not 100% if it works with IPB but it works with other software that uses md5

Thank you. Maybe my phpMyAdmin is a low version, there was no dropdown box to select md5. But I saw I can edit the group id and fortunately I have one member id, so I did the first steps you mentioned, change the group id of the member from 3 to 4, login to the ACP with the member id(now it's in admin group), and reset the admin password. Now it works! :thumbsup:

That won't work with IPB.

My phpMyAdmin is a low version so I didn't change the MD5 password but upgrade a member from group 3 to group 4 to got the admin permission. :)

just use the forgotten password feature

I never succeed in making my SMTP service work... >_< OS is win2003 SP1, port 25 is open, SMTP in IIS6 is okay, but still can not send mail. I use apache2 as www service, don't know if there was conflict between iis and apache on smtp service...

[Mark]

Use PHP's Mail() function - see your EMail set up in ACP

[sychn]

Use PHP's Mail() function - see your EMail set up in ACP

I tried but still not work. :(

I don't know if PHP mail() still need an smtp service running first or I need to edit something in the php.ini? :huh:

[RedEnzian]

create a php file with this content:

<?php

echo md5( md5( "ABCDE" ) . md5( "password" )  );

?>

upload the file to your host and run it from the browser.

goto phpmyadmin and choose the "ibf_members_converge" table, edit the first line (converge_id = 1).

in "converge_pass_hash" enter the output from the php file above, in the "converge_pass_salt" enter "ABCDE".

try to login with "password".

don

[sychn]

create a php file with this content:

upload the file to your host and run it from the browser.

goto phpmyadmin and choose the "ibf_members_converge" table, edit the first line (converge_id = 1).

in "converge_pass_hash" enter the output from the php file above, in the "converge_pass_salt" enter "ABCDE".

try to login with "password".

don

[RedEnzian]

sorry, on windows hosts i don

[Mark]

ysun, for php's mail() function you do need a mail server set up in php.ini

To test the mail function you could just try something like this:

// Professor P$to = "you@somedomain.com";$content = "Your php's mail function works fine!";$subject = "test";mail($to,$subject,$content);?>

<?php

If you get an EMail, your PHP configuration is fine

[sychn]

ysun, for php's mail() function you do need a mail server set up in php.ini

To test the mail function you could just try something like this:

If you get an EMail, your PHP configuration is fine

Thank you, it doesn't work, it seems my phpmail() are not set up correctly. I saw php.ini before, there are several lines about phpmail, but I don't know how to change its parameters and I didn't find any detailed articles on internet about this. :P

[Logan]

ysun, for php's mail() function you do need a mail server set up in php.ini

To test the mail function you could just try something like this:

// Professor P

$to = "you@somedomain.com";
$content = "Your php's mail function works fine!";
$subject = "test";


mail($to,$subject,$content);

?>

If you get an EMail, your PHP configuration is fine

Alternatively, you could just check for the function:

<?php
if (function_exists('mail')) {
    echo "Congratulations!<br />It's possible to send e-mail on this server!";
}
else {
    echo "Sorry!<br />It's <b>not</b> possible to send e-mail on this server!";
}
?>

[sychn]

Alternatively, you could just check for the function:

Thank you. It saids:

Congratulations!
It's possible to send e-mail on this server!

But I still can not send mail, the 'Error MSG' in the 'View Email Error Logs' saids 'Could not send the email'. Very strange.

[Logan]

Might want to contact your host, could be something else messed up.

[sychn]

Might want to contact your host, could be something else messed up.

>_< the problem is I am my host... :(

[sychn]

I uninstalled the IIS with smtp service and installed an SMTP software, now it works.

Thanks to the guys above.