Title: MyPHP admin password reset does work…
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# MyPHP admin password reset does work…

 *  Resolved [JessiRue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessirue/)
 * (@jessirue)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/)
 * I went to log into a site today, but the password didn’t appear to work. I did
   not get the typical red text that accompanies an invalid login attempt. The login
   box shook and cleared out the password.
 * I reset the password via myphp admin, tried again…still didn’t work. Continued
   this a few more times. Then, reset password, tried to login, failed and returned
   to myphp admin to investigate. It appears that the password keeps getting reset
   to a different password upon a login attempt. No other filelds I alter are changed.
 * Could this be a hack? Where do I start trying to track that down?

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/#post-5217330)
 * There are other ways to try.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password](http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password)
 * You can check your site at [http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/](http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/)
 *  Thread Starter [JessiRue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessirue/)
 * (@jessirue)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/#post-5217333)
 * oh great! Okay….looks like it isn’t malware. Thanks for the site.
 * I will move on to the other codex link you sent me. Appreciate the help.
 *  Thread Starter [JessiRue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessirue/)
 * (@jessirue)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/#post-5217387)
 * @kmsessinger – do you have any other ideas for me.
 * I used almost all the suggested ways to reset, including the ’emergency.php’ 
   file and none of them are letting me in my site.
 * I also ran the check you suggested and nothing shows up. I am at a loss.
 *  [billc108](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billc108/)
 * (@billc108)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/#post-5217393)
 * All passwords are encrypted in the database, so if you changed the pass of your
   Admin account via phpMyAdmin to an unencrypted password, it won’t work.
 * If your site allows you to register a new account (even a subscriber account)
   do so.
 * Then go into your database, and to the user table. Copy the pass that you know
   from the new subscriber account, paste it into your Admin account, save the changes.
   You should now be able to log in to your Admin account with the known password.
 *  Thread Starter [JessiRue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessirue/)
 * (@jessirue)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/#post-5217395)
 * Hey Bill – thanks for the suggest. Unfortunately I can’t register a new user.
 * So, following the instructions in the codex link listed above I followed their
   steps that said to select MD5 to encrypt the new password once I keyed it in.
   Which I did… are those steps inaccurate?
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/#post-5217427)
 * Please post a url for the site in this format.
 * sitename dot com Spell out dot.
 *  Thread Starter [JessiRue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessirue/)
 * (@jessirue)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/#post-5217455)
 * ekyhelpingourselves dot com
 * So, last night I decided to just completely uninstall the wordpress installation
   and reload it from a backup. Seemed to be working fine. Now, I am having the 
   same problem that I had before. Won’t let me login again using the first admin
   created. This time, I immediately made a second login when I created the page.
 * Now the second login works from a computer from another location. Different ISP.
   Neither login works for me.
 * So strange.
 *  Thread Starter [JessiRue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessirue/)
 * (@jessirue)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/myphp-admin-password-reset-does-work/#post-5217542)
 * @kmssinger…. well I kinda feel like a dummy. I figured out the problem.
 * I have use [http://www.sitename.com/wp-login.php](http://www.sitename.com/wp-login.php)–
   instead of the normal /wp-admin
 * I don’t understand why, but that seems to work every time.

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