Title: And again: Login problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# And again: Login problem

 *  [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moxie/)
 * (@moxie)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/)
 * It must be me, but again I can’t login. I just could, but now I can’t. I even
   changed the password right from within the database! It doesn’t work! I send 
   myself a new password by mail, still doesn’t work.
    I mean, when I change the
   username and password in the database, the login should work or not?

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50623)
 * If it’s a recent version (post 1.0.2) changing the password directly in the database
   will _ensure_ that you wont be able to login using it, since it’s the password’s
   md5 hash that gets stored in the db, not the plaintext password itself.
 *  Thread Starter [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moxie/)
 * (@moxie)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50625)
 * md5? What’s that?
    And how dó I get logged in again? A hate to begin all over
   again…
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50627)
 * md5 is a one-way hashing algorithm which protects the password from being read
   by anyone.
    now, that said, if you want to change the password directly in the
   database, search for an online tool that creates an md5 hash, and using that 
   tool, generate an md5 hash of the password you desire and introduce the result
   in the database in the password field. There are lots of such md5 creator tools
   on the web.
 *  Thread Starter [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moxie/)
 * (@moxie)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50630)
 * Thanks for the help, but I still can’t login. I found a md5 creator, used a simple
   word, got a loooooooong line of characters which I copied and pasted right into
   the passwordfield in the database… and guess what? Nothing 🙁
 *  [unoamigo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unoamigo/)
 * (@unoamigo)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50690)
 * Delete your cookies to your site. With Safari I had the problem that it was sending
   the password stored in the cookie rather than what I was entering.
    It would 
   not surprise me if other browsers (IE) also experienced a similar problem. You
   will now also probably have to reset your password (again), since you changed
   it directly in the database. Lets see what that does for you. 😉
 *  Thread Starter [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moxie/)
 * (@moxie)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50731)
 * One more time to be sure I did everything correctly:
    1. I’m using Mozilla on
   a pc 2. Deleted all the cookies, emptied cache, deleted history etc. After that
   allowed cookies for all sites. 3. Downloaded md5, made a html-page with in the
   source the code [code]<script language="JavaScript"> hash = hex_md5("stone");
   document.write(hash); </script>[/code] and got “0a840ef45467fb3932dbf2c2896c5cbf”
   4. Went to phpMyAdmin, browsed to user (jack) /password within my database, entered
   the string within the passwordfield and hit “go” to save it. 5. Opening Mozilla,
   loginscreen, jack + stone, and nothing happens! This can’t be possible! More 
   idea’s of what go be going wrong? I dropped the database two times and began 
   all over again?
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50805)
 * And by the way, shouldn’t the new password send to you (by yourself) work?
    Needless
   to say I still can’t login… 🙁
 *  [unoamigo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unoamigo/)
 * (@unoamigo)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50857)
 * If you start with a fresh install of WordPress it will tell you an initial password.
   
   What happened when you tried to use the one it gave initially? Were you never
   able to login? You can also change the e-mail address assigned to the user in
   your MySQL database, then when you use the “forgot password” form you will get
   a e-mail at that address for sure. If the case is that you haven’t entered a 
   e-mail address in for that user yet (or entered a bogus one). I’m not certain
   why your having to use a javascript to get the md5 hash when WordPress will do
   it for you.
 *  [eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eric/)
 * (@eric)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50886)
 * Not sure if this is related but I had a bit of trouble recently when I changed
   my nickname in “profile”, also changed my “Identity on blog” to the new nickname
   and then couldn’t login anymore… Bravely overcoming a deep psycholical fear opf
   databases, I finally went into phpMyAdmin to look at the users table and found
   out that the login name is completely separate from nickname and identity on 
   blog, so all I had to do was log in under the same name name as before.
    But 
   isn’t that a bit illogical? I really would have expected the login to have changed
   as well. Or is there a good reason why it’s implemented like that?
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-50890)
 * The user always logs in with the login name that was created when the user was
   created. This is to prevent conflicts between two users inadvertently changing
   the name they use to login to the same name.
    From the wordpress user interface,
   you cannot change the username you use to login for this and I am sure more other
   reasons 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moxie/)
 * (@moxie)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-51012)
 * Thanks for all the tips. It’s working again, but honestly I can’t say what did
   the trick eventually. Not a good thing. Perhaps I’m going to make the same mistake
   again at a later point, but I guess it could have something to do with what Eric
   wrote, because I wás playing around with new usernames etc.
    Also I found out
   that when asking for a new password through mail, copying and pasting this into
   the passwordfield didn’t work. I actually had to type the characters myself. 
   Strange, because in the case of new passwords for websites (ftp etc.) I do this
   all the time.
 *  [nsxpower](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsxpower/)
 * (@nsxpower)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-51016)
 * I am having the same problem every time I upgrade my local install (OS X 10.3.3),
   even though I do everything as per instructions (overwrite, run upgrade script
   etc.) and every time I can not log in even when pasting the md5 hash. I end up
   creating a new database and then I just move wp_users tables around. Really weird.
 *  Thread Starter [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moxie/)
 * (@moxie)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-51266)
 * Strange, but the problem reoccured. I just spend the entire day playing around
   with wordpress and it’s stylesheets, logging in and out. And now for some reason
   this stops. I can’t login!!!!!
    I did nothing strange except adjusting a few 
   templates, but only on the level of dateformatting etc. Really very basic. I’s
   using Mozilla as a browser, deleting all the cookies etc. etc. I just don’t get
   it! This should not happen! And I’m pretty sure I did nothing wrong!
 *  Thread Starter [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moxie/)
 * (@moxie)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-51294)
 * Someone? I know I have to be patient to get the wright answer, but without being
   able to login I can’t do anything 🙁
    Just tried to login with the new password
   that WP sends to you by e-mail, but this also does’t work. After this I checked
   the database through phpmyadmin and saw that the password hád been updated, 
   but still no login. And just to be sure I deleted all the cookies, cleared history,
   cleared the cache , even restarted my pc, but nothing works. I even inserted 
   a new row into the database with a new user, new password…………
 *  Thread Starter [Jack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moxie/)
 * (@moxie)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-again-login-problem/#post-51298)
 * As an addition to the previous I can add that when filling in the data in the
   loginscreen I never receive an errorwarning when clicking the ok-button.
    I think
   that’s also odd.

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