Newlukai

First of all let me thank you for your efforts. Both of you. It’s really great.

This morning I wanted to try Joe’s hint. But then I saw Otto’s proposal and tried it first, since it was easier 🙂
And that’s it! Deleting the cookies let me login again. But do you think we just found a way to get rid of the symptom or was a strange cookie the cause and I will never have the problem again?

I executed this select statement:

SELECT * FROM 'wp_options' WHERE 'option_name' like '%salt%'

No results. Should I insert the salts?

I did some investigation on my own. I used the “Forgot password” functionality and WordPress sent me a new one. After a successful login I changed the password. Simultanously I used phpmyadmin to copy the hashed password in a text file. Then I logged in, logged out, logged in again. Worked well. But after an hour, I couldn’t login anymore. Now I opened phpmyadmin again and saw that the hash was the same as before. It didn’t change. 24 hours later the same: Can’t login, but the hash is correct.

I use WordPress 3.0.1 and read that it doesn’t use MD5 hashing but a hashing algorithm based on salts. Is there a possibility that the generation of the hash is somehow broken?