xenocrat
commented
22 hours ago Hello there,
The password reset link will expire after 1 hour to avoid misuse. Ideally you should resolve your email delivery issues and then use the reset link within 1 hour, but if you want to edit the password directly you can do so in PHPMyAdmin as follows:
- Select your Chyrp Lite database - the name was chosen by you during installation.
- Browse the table "users"
- Find your entry in the table, using the "login" column to guide you.
- Change the data for your entry's password column to
$6$rounds=50000$wceapVGNDcHUNSYc$3aGWRuvEX0DIKe6uK9VTxnMpQJOs8iC8gl9ytZ0A9JCOcw7bHij60hU4kcVjtHVK3B1/0wfatCFxASR6fvbjn0. Do not use the md5 function - Chyrp Lite does not use md5 hashing for passwords. - After changing the data, your password is now "password". I encourage you to log in and change it to something more secure immediately. ;-)
I had to reset the password on a new install and that worked, once only. Some odd thing is going on with my web browser trying to save passwords. I think. Anyway, no problem just thought I would set a new one. I clicked "Help" and Chyrp said it was sending me the reset link. But... it took almost 2 days to arrive and then it tells me it is expired. I think the delay is due to my web host merging with another web host. Somehow the email to change the password came through a bluesky account, not mine. Anyway, that's the long version of the story.
Is there a way to change the password myself through phpmyadmin? I've done it that way (a few times) when WordPress mucked up and it was fairly simple. I looked at it with Chyrp but the same plan didn't work. I think I need to change something else with the 'varchar' part. That's my guess.
Here is what I'm working with: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-reset-a-wordpress-password-from-phpmyadmin/
If that won't work for Chyrp please let me know what I can do. Thank you, as always. You really do give extra super support for Chyrp.