[opencms-dev] problem changein Admin password

[Michael Moossen]

hi, Christoph!

The best is to copy the encripted password from another database where 
you still know the actual password.

by the way, for 'admin' use 'ISMvKXpXpadDiUoOSoAfww=='

HTH
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Michael Moossen

Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org

Mathias Lin | SYSVISION schrieb:
> 
> The sql statement doesn't work because the password are stored encrypted.
> You need to encrypt them:
> md5('some_password')
> 
> Which encryption is being used - you can see in opencms-system.xml, which is
> md5 by default.
> 
>     <passwordhandler class="org.opencms.security.CmsDefaultPasswordHandler">
>       <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
>       <digest-type>MD5</digest-type>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
>> Yesterday I upgraded a site to 7.5.0 (my own playground site) and since it
>> was
>> late in the night I had to leave it with the CMS login banner. Someone
>> must have tried to break in (I changed the Admin password though in the
>> first place) but this morning I could not log in anymore.
>>
>> I then did an
>>
>>  update cms_users set user_password='some_password' where
>> user_name='Admin';
>>
>> in mysql. But I still cannot login. The first login with the new
>> password fails and a subsequent tells me that the account is closed for
>> a certain time and I should try again later.
>>
>> How can I get arround this?
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
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> Mathias Lin
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