I forgot my wordpress admin password but i am able to get into my DB and have the hashed password and also i have salt key from my wp-config.php file.
Does anyone know how can i get my password back from above details.
I tried doing forgot password thing but i never got email to reset password.
Open localhost/phpmyadmin
Open the database then table wp_users
Edit the corresponding row of user
Copy and keep the old password (for backup)
Edit field `user_pass' and type value
Change Type to MD5 and then update the row.
You can reset your password using database password field.
goto your database users table.
find password field. It can be seen as hash.
Generate new hash using this generator, http://www.danstools.com/md5-hash-generator/
replace new hash.
Input a new password and generate its hash.
Then update password column in the user table through MySQL database with the new generated hash.
After that you can log in to the backend using the new password.
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After I establish and user and set their password, is there a way to have users reset their passwords on login? I'd like the password I set for them to be temporary.
Thanks!
When you sign up your user, make something that says that their password is temporary (such as a field in the database that's an int with either 0 or 1). When they log in, it should check the field for if the password is temporary, and if it is, then ask them for their real password and use the UPDATE statement to update their password. If it isn't, continue normally.
We may have been hacked as one of our links now goes to a dodgy site.
1. wp_users in our db: I checked our user_login, user_pass, user_email etc...
I use them to try and login to our wordpress account and it says one of them is incorrect would you like to reset password but we never receive anything in out inbox - not in junk mail, not anywhere etc...
As I say, in our db everything is correct.
How am I supposed to reagin my password?
You can change the password directly in phpmyadmin but you will need to convert it to a md5 hash string first. Just google md5 hash generator and write a password to convert, then you can paste the converted string into the password field for the desired user in the database.
Then when you are logged in, change password in wp-admin to make sure everything works as it should.
I'm using the FOSUserBundle on a Symfony project, and I would like to know if, when a user changes his password, I can have access to his former password. The one he's supposed to enter in the "current password" field.
I have a system of encryption on my project, and it's partially based on the user's password, that's why I need it, to update the user's encryption settings.
I created a listener when the user changes his password but I don't know how to get his former password. Or current password, whatever.
Thank you for your help !
Short answer: NO. If user won't give you his current password by typing it in form it's impossible to guess his password.
Only option to have access to current user's password is when password is stored in database in plain text which is rather not the case.
The way passwords are stored in db usually is by using hashing function which are designed to be impossible to invert - you are able to hash your password but you can't unhash it.
In theory you could try to use Rainbow tables but it's not something you could use in regular way on every passwprd change because it's very CPU heavy.
encrypt the new password.
compare the hash of the new password and the hash password in the database.
I have tried to convert a text password to hashed password by wp_hash_password() function.But the result password is not same as the password saved in wp_users table
$password = wp_hash_password($password);
I have also tried it by md5($password);
But generated password the not same as the password saved in wp_users table
The resuling hash is not supposed to be the same. Thats how the hashing was designed, Each stored password has a salt built in.
Wordpress uses Openwalls phpass (http://www.openwall.com/phpass/)
This makes it much more secure if there is a leak of the database as each row has its own salt so attacks are on a per password basis rather than a per database basis increasing the time taken for brute force and dictionary attacks etc.
Wordpress provide a function wp_check_password for checking a password agaist a hash.
I store the customers passwords in DB using encryption.
When the customer edits his personal data (including the password) the passwords are shown as *****
How can i understand that the use change his password so write to DB without encrypted again and again.
I mean that the value in password field is the encrypted value. If dont change the password must update with the same value (or not update at all)
If user change password to 1234 I must encrypt the 1234 and write to DB the encrypted value
Thanks
Don't send the md5 hashed string from the DB back. Set up three fields:
Old password
New password
New password again
Then check if the first field after md5 hashing is equal to the stored one in the DB. If it is, hash the second field and store it. (Only if the second and third is equal)
You should require entering both old and new password when user wants to change it.
That way, you can encode the old password, check if the encoded value is the same as in the database. If it is the same, then the you should update the password in db with encoded new password. If it is not the same (or old password is empty) you do not update.
This helps you to distinguish between password change and settings-only change. You also gain a some level of security, as if someone have captured the session of your user, he cannot change his password without also capturing is original password.
A few points:
MD5 is a hashing algorithm, you will never be able to reverse the hash and that's the point.
Don't use MD5 as it has been cracked, use an SHA2+ Hash Algorithm (SHA256 for example)
Simply confirm the password with the "old password" by hashing the old password against the one in the database.
Another option is resetting the password, which will email their confirmed (hopefully) contact email with the new password.
If they're logged into the system already, you should not need to "confirm" the old password again.
Never send the hashed password back from the database, it is kind of defeating the purpose of what you are trying to accomplish.