[Mediawiki-l] Resetting a forgotten password

[Rick DeNatale]

On 1/17/06, Sy Ali <sy1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there the facility to get or reset a user's lost password when
> email functions have been turned off?

I don't think that there's a facility to do this, however -

The user table in the database stores the MD5 hash of the password
salted with the user id, if you can generate this hash value you can
manually reset a password via an SQL update.  It ain't pretty but
failing all else...

Details of how the password is salted can be found in User.php

Good luck
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Rick DeNatale

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