Reset your lost Joomla Password

I recommend you to backup your website database before following this tutorial. The stored passwords are in a one way MD5 hash format, so it is not possible to recover them, but instead, you can reset it. In order to reset your lost Joomla password, you will need to access your database by using phpmyadmin or any related utility. Once you open up your database using phpmyadmin, look for the Joomla table 'jos_users'. Once you find it, click on it to select it and then on the top middle of phpmyadmin, click on the 'Browse' link. You will now be presented with fields:

id name username email password usertype

Look for the username you want to have the password reset for. For the field you want to reset the password, click on the pencil icon to edit the field (its at the start of each entry row). Now you will be presented by all the editable fields on the next page. You have to edit the password field which may have a value of something like '1a52ed76f4df2f624e235c9a97deed3' (a long string of numbers and characters). We need to reset this to our new md5 hash. In order to do this, go to this website

http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/

Here in the input field, type in the new password you want for that field and then click on the md5 button. Once you do that, you will be presented with the new password md5 hash in the result field. Copy this hash and paste it over in phpmyadmin in your password field and then click the Go button. Once you do that, you can now log into your Joomla using the new password (not the md5 has but the password you set). I hope this helps!! Cheers!