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MCB
10th of December 2006 (Sun), 21:30
Like an idiot, I let Firefox remember my EE admin password for me. Then after my hard drive died, I had no way to log back in as admin to my EE site. I thought the password was in one of the PHP files like /basecode/SETUP_settings.PHP, but now I can't find it.

I still have root SSH and FTP access to my server. How can I log back in to EE?

Thanks in advance.

Pekka
11th of December 2006 (Mon), 07:57
Unzip admin/SCRIPT_reset_username_and_pass.zip and open SCRIPT_reset_username_and_pass.php to your browser. That resets
username: admin
pass: pass

MCB
11th of December 2006 (Mon), 19:20
Thank you!!

Pekka
11th of December 2006 (Mon), 19:44
PS. remember to DELETE SCRIPT_reset_username_and_pass.php right after you've used it!