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So have you forgotten you Joomla 1.5 admin password? Well I have bad news for you, the thing about the admin password, is that you won’t be able to recover it. I know it seems scary, but what you can do is replace that unknown password for something that you will know. That is what you are going to be learning on this video tutorial.

Now on this video, I’m using a Linux server with a CPANEL utility, if there is a chance that you are using a Windows server, it is going to be different. Also some Linux servers don’t come with the CPANEL utility, so be aware of that. What you can do in that case is, you can contact your hosting company and ask them how to access your Database from the Joomla site that you forgot the password.

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In general, we are going to do the following.

1. Access Our Control Panel.
2. Access the database from the Joomla site that you forgot the password.
3. Access the table users and modify the unknown password.
4. Apply changes and test our new password.

That’s it, enjoy the video.

Paswords used on this tutorial.

Password = admin MD5 hashed = 21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3
Password = secret MD5 hashed = 5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69

Password = OU812 MD5 hashed = 7441de5382cf4fecbaa9a8c538e76783

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