Title: Resetting passwords programmatically fails
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Resetting passwords programmatically fails

 *  [dtulloss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtulloss/)
 * (@dtulloss)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resetting-passwords-programmatically-fails/)
 * I’ve imported users into a BuddyPress/Multisite install of 3.9.1, but have a 
   problem:
 * I can change users’ passwords via the admin interface and that works fine. I 
   use MD5 to update users via phpMyAdmin and get a different hash as a result and
   users cannot log in. The Codex says that this should work. There are over 200k
   users, so manually resetting them all is not going to happen. I don’t want to
   set them to the same password because naughty people will take control of others’
   accounts.
 * It seems to me I might be missing a trigger function on wp_users or something
   like that which provides the ‘double hash’ mentioned in the Codex. Anyone know
   if that exists? Or perhaps a way to use PHP to generate the ‘double hash’ that
   the Codex speaks of?

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resetting-passwords-programmatically-fails/)
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