How To Reset Admin Password from database in Magento

Published On: 28 November 2013.By Ankur Goyal.

Digital Engineering

How To Reset Admin Password from database in Magento

Its a very common problem when you forget your admin password, don’t worry all is not lost. Changing magento password using database is very easy. Just follow these few steps and you will be up and running in no time.

Choose any two characters eg. XY.
Generate MD5 of two characters and your password e.g MD5(‘XYmypaswd’). You can generate MD5 using query SELECT MD5(‘XYmypaswd’);
Copy this md5, append your two characters at the end of the md5 string followed by “:”. so your string would be MD5 string:XY.
Update the row in the database of admin user.

Execute the query by clicking the Go button and your password will be changed.