Question: I’m unable to remember my password, and I’m not getting my Forgot Password email to get a new one. How can I figure out what my password is?

Answer: Passwords are encrypted using SHA1, so you’ll need to replace your password with a known SHA1’d password.

In this case, I use the password of password, which is set to:

5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8

Using a MySQL tool such as PHPMyAdmin (or something similar) replace the value of password with the text string listed above.

Log in with your username and the word “password” (without quotes). Make sure to change your password to something else in your profile settings.

Note: As of EE 2.2.0, passwords are salted and hashed with a SHA-2 hash function. The above workaround will no longer work.