password help

bgbs · Staff Sergeant Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 31

Hi, is there any way I can view this sql password?
Its my phpnuke account and in sql database in nuke_users it lists encrypted passwords. Is there a simple way to decipher that?

72122ce96bfec66e2396d2e25225d70a

Let me know, thanks.

chris · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 2:08 am Post subject:

No, there is no simple way to decipher this. This is the MD5 hash of the password. You can read about the algorithm in RFC 1321.

But why are you asking? Did someone forget his password? If so, you can do the following:

Using phpMyAdmin (or directly in MySQL), go to the nuke_authors table and make your pass dc647eb65e6711e155375218212b3964 - that will make it Password, then just login and change it. See I deleted my Super Admin. How do I get him back? .

zettie · Corporal Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 15

Hello,

I'm trying to change the password for my admin menu. I have found nuke_authors and see the hash of the password. I also see instructions for how to change the password to "password". If I then want to change it from "password" to something else, how to I know the proper encription? Is there an easy way to do this for someone who does not know php?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

chris-au · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject:

A simple way?

zettie · Corporal Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 15

Where do you do this? I'm sorry but I have no idea where I might use this code.

I apologize but I don't know the first thing about php/sql programming and I'm new to php nuke. Perhaps this is more than I can hope to be able to accomplish but all I really want to do at this point is change the password at my admin screen. There are also other log in names with superadmin set to 1 that I was not aware of. We had a developer build this site for us and it has been left to me to decipher. I would like to change these passwords because I don't know how many people knew the passwords during the development of my site.

Can you help me in really basic terms? Do I need to pay someone to do this for me?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

chris · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

Upload the script of chris-au to you server, then point your browser to it. It will show you the MD5 hash for the password you entered in the code (in place of "balblah" in the code). Then copy that value and paste it in the password field.

Or use phpMyAdmin and choose the MD5 function from the dropdown list.

chris · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 11:24 am Post subject:

BTW zettie, the above method is only recommended if you forgot the admin password and want to set it anew.

To change the admin password, point your browser to the admin.php file, log in as administrator with the old password, click on the "Edit Admins" icon, choose the admin whose password you want to change, click on "Modify" and change the password.

zettie · Corporal Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 15

Thank you...I think that's where I am lost. I don't have an "edit admins" icon. I have preferences but nothing that allows me to change my password. Is there any other way?

Thank you...
zettie
www.skytoyz.com

chris · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 12:24 pm Post subject:

You don't have that

Edit Admins
Edits Users
Encyclopedia
Ephemerids
FAQ
Forums

line of icons in your administration panel?

Weird...

zettie · Corporal Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 15

I don't have "edit admins", but I do have:
back up database
banners
blocks
event calendar
edit users
myegallery
faq
forums
http referrers
messages
newsletter
optimize db
preferences
surveys/polls
weblinks
logout/exit
Is there a way to add this icon to my admin menu? I was just searching around in my ftp program and found authors.php under admin modules. Is there a place in this file where I can add code to add this icon to my admin menu? Just a shot in the dark...maybe I need to do something completely different.

Any help?
Thanks for everything already:)
zettie

chris-au · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 12:53 pm Post subject:

There is another way of resetting the admin password.,
You wrote that you can access the table nuke_authors

If that is so, just EMPTY that table. DO NOT DELETE.

When you login again as admin you will be prompted for a name and password.
You should do that there and then but DO NOT MAKE ANOTHER USER WITH THE SAME NAME, that is very important.

chris · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject:

zettie · Corporal Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 15

Mission accomplished.....I was able to successfully change all the passwords through phpMyAdmin! Thank you SO much for your help with this

However, I tried logging in under all aid's and I still don't have the edit admins icon. I don't think this really matters though, since I seem to be able to make appropriate changes through phpMyAdmin??

Thank you for your patience in walking me through this procedure..

chris · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:46 am Post subject:

I'm glad you finally got it working. But this missing "Edit Admins" link in your administration panel is disturbing. What version are you running? You see the version in the Statistics module (click on "Statistics" in the Modules block of the home page and read the resulting page carefully, you will see the version somewhere).

I don't think it's O.K. to be missing that link - unless something has changed in the newer versions and I am not aware of it.

zettie · Corporal Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 15

I don't see a "statistics" module. That's probably not good either. Now, would this be an icon on my admin.php page, or should it be in the left hand block under "modules". When I go to phpMyAdmin, I find nuke_stats_date (hour, month and year). I do not know what version I'm running, though it would be helpful info. It was installed in April 03. Can I find the version anywhere else?

Is it possible that the person who built our site for us deleted certain icons that he didn't think I would need?

Thanks again...

chris · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:51 pm Post subject:

It should be in the left hand blocjk with the title "Modules". If you don't see it, it may be deactivated. Go to the admin panel, click on "Modules", find the Statistics module in the table and click on the "Activate" link on that line. Then you should see it in the Modules block on the left.

chris-au · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:27 pm Post subject:

zettie · Corporal Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 15

AHA! That's it! links.editadmins.php was in a subfolder in links. I copied it and presto! it's now appearing in my admin screen.

That wasn't so bad. I've been really intimidated about making changes like that...

Thank you thank you thank you!!

chris · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:52 am Post subject:

But why was it in that subfolder? Did you move it there? Are there more files there? Did the guy who installed it for you did this, as a "security measure"?

zettie · Corporal Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 15

I have a feeling the guy who installed it did that, judging by the name he gave the subfolder. There are quite a few other files in that subfolder (ie encyclopedia, ephemerids, add story and others). Maybe he thought we couldn't be trusted with this responsibility (LOL). Maybe he's a control freak

Maybe he wanted to charge us for additional functionality. He's out of the picture now though, and I do want to change some permissions so our staff can't go places where they're not supposed to go.

Thanks so much!
Suzette Bergeron
www.skytoyz.com

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