Title: Admin Password Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Admin Password Problem

 *  [selzlerb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selzlerb/)
 * (@selzlerb)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-password-problem/)
 * Hello Team,
 * I’ve been logging into my wordpress installation via a computer that has essentially
   logged into the admin account for me. I tried logging in from another computer
   and found that the admin password I thought I used would not work. So, this morning
   I logged on automatically from the original computer to check the account.
 * It appeared to be what I thought it was, so I logged out and trying logging back
   in with what I thought was my admin account and password. Oy. Now I can’t log
   in as administrator at all!
 * So, I guess my question is, has this happened to anyone else? And is there a 
   way to reset the admin password from the server itself? Let me know what you 
   think.
 * Thanks.
 * – Sez

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-password-problem/#post-163163)
 * Got phpmyadmin ?
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/)
 *  [emortell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emortell/)
 * (@emortell)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-password-problem/#post-163906)
 * I have (had) a perfectly fine blog until I reset and the promptly forgot my admin
   password. After trying very combination under the sun I decided to use phpMyAdmin
   to reset the password field (using the M5 pull down option) in the wp_users table.
   That all seemed to work fine on the surface but I am still locked out. Is there
   another way to recover, reset or circumvent the admin password? Any help would
   be appreciated. Shot myself in the foot pretty good this time 😉
    my blog- [http://www.edwardmortell.com/blog/](http://www.edwardmortell.com/blog/)
 *  [tonyprodger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyprodger/)
 * (@tonyprodger)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-password-problem/#post-163927)
 * So now there are three of us that have shot themselves in the foot. I was hoping
   to change my password immediately I logged on but was not allowed to change the
   password becvause of IE6’s security. So I didn’t pay enough attention to the 
   original 6 character password code. A lesson learnt but I am still locked out.
 *  [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/)
 * (@ladydelaluna)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-password-problem/#post-163928)
 * why can’t you click on the “forgot your password?” link and get a new one sent
   to your email?

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 4 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-password-problem/#post-163928)
 * Status: not resolved

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