Lost the admin password. How can I recover it?

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  1. membercas

    membercas New Member

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    Guys,

    I "managed" to lose my admin password. How can I recover it?

    My site was a little inactive and now, my 3 months license has expired and I have to update the installation with the unlimited license. Sadly I do not find my admin password.

    What happens if I can't update it in time?
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Many thanks.

    Cheers.
    membercas, Dec 8, 2008
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  2. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    skippybosco, Dec 8, 2008
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  3. membercas

    membercas New Member

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    Thanks mate, problem solved!
    membercas, Dec 11, 2008
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  4. zkeeper99

    zkeeper99 New Member

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    Love it! Great tool. aMember just re-did my install, but I couldn't get access to my Admin cPanel with what should have been the proper password. This worked perfectly!
    zkeeper99, Apr 3, 2009
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  5. novi75

    novi75 New Member

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    Doesn't work with WordPress

    Doesn't work with WordPress
    novi75, Oct 21, 2011
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  6. alex

    alex aMember Pro Customer Staff Member

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    Novi, what exactly does not work with WordPress???
    alex, Oct 22, 2011
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    rmara Eager Beaver and Avid Learner

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    rmara, Feb 7, 2013
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  8. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    Did you unzip the fixadmin.zip file into your aMember folder?
    skippybosco, Feb 7, 2013
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  9. alexander

    alexander Administrator Staff Member

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    Do you have aMember v4 installed? This thread is for aMember v3 and suggestions above will not work for aMember v4.
    For aMember v4, use Lost password link on admin login page.
    alexander, Feb 8, 2013
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  10. giuggio184

    giuggio184 New Member

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    Hello there, I have the same issue, I can see my email in the admin table in the database, but when I use the tool to recover my password I get this message: The information you have entered is incorrect.
    Username [myemail@hotmail.com] does not exist in database
    giuggio184, Apr 29, 2013
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  11. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    @giuggio184: Are you using aMember v3 or v4? This tool only works for aMember v3. For aMember v4 you can use lost password link on admin login page.
    skippybosco, Apr 29, 2013
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  12. giuggio184

    giuggio184 New Member

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    giuggio184, Apr 29, 2013
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  13. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    skippybosco, Apr 29, 2013
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    buffpam13 New Member

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    buffpam13, Jun 8, 2013
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  15. buffpam13

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    buffpam13, Jun 8, 2013
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  16. thehpmc

    thehpmc Member

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    'don't work' isn't much help!

    What version of aMember are you using. If V3 and you tried fixadmin what happened?
    thehpmc, Jun 8, 2013
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  17. anzam

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    I'm having a similar issue to one described further above in this thread.

    I've set up a test installation of aMember 4 in order to migrate. I've tried to log in again, but it always says my username/password is incorrect for admin. I've tried using the retrieve password input on the same page, but it says my email doesn't exist (I can see it in mySQL). I've also tried using /amember/admin-auth/send-pass but I never received the email from that address.

    I would like to solve this issue on my test version before I progress further with the migration, as this would be problematic in our live environment.
    anzam, Sep 15, 2013
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  18. ccwjames

    ccwjames Member

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    JUST installed 4.6 and somehow hit the password part on left and then back on firefox
    now i cant login?
    gives me so cfs protection error? tried the thing above nothing
    ccwjames, May 20, 2015
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