[SOLVED] Do the reset password tricks work for you? They don't work for me.

[Boost]

Hei guys,

All the password resets in this forum don't work for me. I have the admin username with ID 41, but no luck. I noticed that all the examples for the password reset use username + password for the login. In my case, I use an email and password. Could that be the reason? Any ideas?

[Rudy]

Have you tried this method?

https://processwire.recipes/recipes/resetting-admin-password-via-api/

[virtualgadjo]

hi,

no 🙂 this one only resets the password (i think it's @bernhard who gave it)
first, put this in you _init.php file or on top of your _main.php

if($input->get->resetpassword == 1) {
  $admin = $users->get(41);
  $admin->setAndSave('pass', 'yournewpassword');
  die("admin url = {$pages->get(2)->httpUrl}, admin username = {$admin->name}");
}

then go to http://www.yoursite.com/?resetpassword=1
and, of course, immediatly remove this code from your template, goes without saying...

it only uses and targets the first admin user (id 41) whichever login you're using

have a nice day

[Boost]

Thanks @virtualgadjo, but no luck yet.

I just got the admin login page. No error. Nothing happens. I just cannot get in. I tried to find any hints in the logs, but nothing there either.

16 hours ago, Rudy said:

Have you tried this method?

https://processwire.recipes/recipes/resetting-admin-password-via-api/

I tried it and it didn't work.

[virtualgadjo]

Hi @Boost

funny, i just had to use it for a friend yesterday and, once more (he often looses his password :)) it worked fine

the thing is, using this trick, first go to the domain url (not the admin login one) with the ?reset... as it works on the frontend of course and as you can see it doesn't use any user name or email to do the trick, only the user id
to check if it does something you may try having the "field_pass" table opened, refreshing it after you've gone to the homepage with the reset get var to see if it worked or at least did something

have a nice day

 

[Boost]

30 minutes ago, virtualgadjo said:

to check if it does something you may try having the "field_pass" table opened, refreshing it after you've gone to the homepage with the reset get var to see if it worked or at least did something

Hi. How would you do that?

[zoeck]

You have to open the database + table (field_pass) in an SQL administration tool, e.g. PHPMyAdmin (Or if you have installed Tracy with Adminer, you can also use this)

[virtualgadjo]

@Boost oh yes, being an old guy, i like to see if what i do actually does something, i don't totally rely on my brain 😄

the important thing here is the homepage with the get var one as using the snippet in your _main ou _init only works on the front side

have a nice day

 

[virtualgadjo]

@Boost sorry i misread your question... what @zoeck said 🙂

[Boost]

Thanks @zoeck. At least now I can confirm that nothing changed there. It seems that it's not resetting it.

[virtualgadjo]

@Boost where have you put the php snippet ?

[Boost]

1 minute ago, virtualgadjo said:

@Boost where have you put the php snippet ?

_init.php

[Boost]

When I run the script I get 

admin url = http://acme.local:8080/backend/, admin username = admin

But nothing changes in the DB.

[virtualgadjo]

@Boost

funny, maybe try on top of your _main.php file just after the namespace... but this seems to show it does work
what i don't really get is your url using a :8000 port being used to set virtualhosts, looks like an url sent by vs code live server...

 

[Boost]

Yeah. I'm using it on my local machine. I set up a virtualbox to server the LAMP. That's why I need to use 8080 for the port forward 🙂 

[virtualgadjo]

maybe (really maybe...) your issue comes from the mysql port in your virtualbox but if the website works it shouldn't
i must say i'm a litte stuck here as using this trick quite often i never ran into that kind of problem be it online or locally

[Boost]

No problem @virtualgadjo, thank you for help!

 

[virtualgadjo]

@Boost my pleasure of course but i would have prefered it was useful 🙂

have a nice day

[Boost]

As a follow-up, I got it working with the @virtualgadjo script. Thank you!.

My issue was within the Apache setup. My directives were not right. Fixing that, and the reset worked like a charm.

[virtualgadjo]

Hi @Boost

ah yes, great to "hear" this (actually it's a @bernhard script i keep carefully in a txt file 😄 )

have a nice day

[bernhard]

Well, actually it might be even more fun to do this:

// site/ready.php
// REMOVE THIS AFTER PASSWORD RESET!!!
if ($input->get('logmein') == 'yesplease') {
  $wire->session->forceLogin($users->get("roles=superuser"));
}

Then visit any page of your website with ?logmein=yesplease and reset your password from within the PW backend 😎

[virtualgadjo]

@bernhard 😀 great to have you here and thanks a lot, i keep this one as carefully as the former one and will try it next time i'm asked for help by a friend having lost his password 🙂

have a nice day