[wp-hackers] New password encription

Stefano Aglietti steagl4ml at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 07:11:24 GMT 2008


On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:28:54 +1000, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

>You can simply replace it with a md5 without having to enable any plugins.
>
>WordPress can determine if the value is a md5 or a phpass hash, If its a  
>MD5, then it will validate you based on md5, and then update the password  
>hash to a phpass hash.
>
>I had the same problems a few days ago, I needed access to a temp trunk  
>install, and i'd forgotten to change the password from the default, I  
>simply did an update wp_users set password = md5('test'); and everything  
>was up and running again (You might want to add a Where clause to that.. i  
>only had one user :))

Oh ok, i supposed that password were recoded during upgrade and old
MD5 didn't work anymore.. then the old Tanba method is still alive.

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