WordPress: Reset the admin password

I lost the admin account password for a WordPress site. There are several ways to reset a WordPress password.

These are the steps I used to reset the "admin" account password in WordPress 2.7.1.

Reset the password

1. Open a Linux shell.
2. Generate an MD5 password hash:

   1	echo -n password | md5sum

3. Go to phpMyAdmin and open your WordPress database.
4. Run the following SQL, replacing the database name with your own:

   1	UPDATE 'name-your-database'.'wp_users' SET 'user_pass' =' 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99' WHERE  'wp_users'.'ID' =1 LIMIT 1 ;

5. You can also run mysql, select the database with "use name-your-database;" and run the UPDATE statement above.

Reference

• Resetting Your Password