WordPress Forgets Password

Darfuria
(@darfuria)

16 years, 6 months ago

Having an issue with an installation of WordPress whereby the password I set doesn’t work (not an obscure password by any means), so I go through the process of resetting it – manage to login once, and then if I change it or not, the password will not work next time I try to login. I have to go through the process of resetting it again – which sometimes doesn’t work.

I have disabled all plugins and didn’t have any errors when I applied the 2.8.4 update. Nor have I done anything odd with themes or anything like that.

Any suggestions?

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Mark Ratledge
(@songdogtech)

16 years, 6 months ago

Delete cookies, clear cache and history, clear saved passwords in browser. Try again.

Thread Starter Darfuria
(@darfuria)

16 years, 6 months ago

All tried – no joy.

Sorry, should have specified that I did that in the first post.

This occurs for multiple users too – so I don’t think I could put it down to a local issue.

Mark Ratledge
(@songdogtech)

16 years, 6 months ago

Try again:

1. logout or logout with http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php?loggedout=true
2. clear cookies
3. exit browser
4. make sure a local firewall is not causing problem
5. login with http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php
6. disable all plugins

And/or: Resetting Password and emergency password reset script

Thread Starter Darfuria
(@darfuria)

16 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for your suggestion.

Unfortunately I ran through all of that and it didn’t resolve the issue. The password was reset using the emergency password reset script – and as usual, after logging in and using the system, I logged out and was unable to log back in again.

No plugins have been enabled.

Mark Ratledge
(@songdogtech)

16 years, 6 months ago

Mystery. I’d do a reupgrade. And can you use PhpMyAdmin? Use that to repair your database.

Thread Starter Darfuria
(@darfuria)

16 years, 6 months ago

Yeah – I ran through a repair in PhpMyAdmin this evening. Unfortunately that didn’t do much. I’ll rebuild I guess :/

Mark Ratledge
(@songdogtech)

16 years, 6 months ago

Yup, a reupgrade is all I can think of.

Thread Starter Darfuria
(@darfuria)

16 years, 5 months ago

Alas I reinstalled in a new database and it resolved the issue. Very bizarre.

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