How to Reset your MediaWiki Admin Password

Posted by Jamsi in PHP on December 5th, 2009 | one response

So for some strange reason, it just took me a good 20minutes to find an article on Google to tell me how to reset the Mediawiki admin password (because yes .. I forgot it). Some articles mentioned using phpMyAdmin to edit the users table directly, however the password is stored in a TinyBLOB format – so I had no clue.

Luckily I finally found a way to reset the Admin password!

You’ll need shell/SSH access for this procedure to work.

1) Login to your media wiki installation
2) Then type the following;

cd maintenance
php changePassword.php --user=Admin --password=tada321$

This will change the “Admin” user’s password to “tada321$” ! I then highly suggest you login to MediaWiki and change the password to something more secure/familiar :D

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