How to recover password super administrator

Recovery using the password reminder

If you remember the e-mail super administrator, you can visit the site and use the forgotten password reminders. For this you would type in the address bar of your browser (instead of site.ru specify the address of your site):

http://site.ru/index.php?option=com_registration&task=lostPassword

Then enter your login and e-mail account, super administrator, and click "Send Password". A new password will be sent to the address of the super administrator account.

Password reset super administrator using SQL-query

If for some reason you can not recover your password via the forgotten password reminder function, you can reset the administrator password using the SQL-query.

To do this you must connect to the site database and execute the following SQL-query (eg using phpMyAdmin ):


 UPDATE `jos_users` 
 SET password = '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3 ' 
 WHERE id = 62;

After running this SQL-query, super administrator password is admin. Do not forget to go to the admin panel and change the password for security purposes.

Script Admin Restore for Mambo / Joomla

To restore the super administrator account, you can use a small script, developed by Gorsk.net . Script Admin Restore for Mambo / Joomla super administrator sets the account password admin.

Download the script Admin Restore for Mambo / Joomla
Extract the archive file admrest.php
Copy admrest.php the root site
Run the script from the browser (for example, http://site.ru/admrest.php)
Enter the administrative panel and change the default password

Note: if the server settings allow, the file will attempt samoudalitsya, if he does not succeed - be sure to remove it from the server manually

Script Joomla System Tool

To change the password super administrator can also use a small script developed by the programmer team joom.ru Dead Krolik'om. It allows you to enter a new password (besides, it has a function of the file manager, etc.)