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You need to log in to the database directly. First obtain the user's id as in the following example (alternatively, go to [[Special:Userlist]] and get the id from there): | You need to log in to the database directly. First obtain the user's id as in the following example (alternatively, go to [[Special:Userlist]] and get the id from there): | ||
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Reset a wiki user password Organic Design procedure |
Before reading further consider the password reset extension which gives a simple form to reset wiki passwords.
You need to log in to the database directly. First obtain the user's id as in the following example (alternatively, go to Special:Userlist and get the id from there):
Then apply the query shown in the following example to set the password for that user id (here the WikiSysop user id is 1): Note that the password is a nested concatenation of both the md5 of the user_id combined with the md5 password.
