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I need some help. I got brave and upgraded to the beta 0.8 Man! It looks great. But I have one problem. I can't login to the admin area. I have tried every ID and pword that I have used in the past including the suggested ones from here. I looked in db and I see my admin id and a readable password. I don't know how to create a new password in phpMyAdmin. How can I correct this. The only bug in this program is me.

Regards
Don

No problem. If you see the password "readable" in phpMyAdmin (or in the MySQL console), you forgot to md5() them. So in the "function" dropdown left to the password field in phpMyAdmin select the function "MD5" and save.

The md5 function creates a hash of your password. This is to ensure that nobody can read your password (you can't "unhash" the hashed password), but s9y can still tell if a given password is the one you md5'd (md5'ing the same password twice will give you the same hash).

Hope that helps

ALRIGHT! Man that was simple.... and it works to. Thank you very much.

Don

jhermanns wrote:(you can't "unhash" the hashed password)

Not anymore: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2 ... roken.html