lost admin password

[}{iJacK]

i lost my admin pass.
my email service down..
i cant get wit forgot password section..
and i dont find my passfile in server what can i do?
would somebody tell it?
sorry for my english. plz more clearly

[lakeside]

Well,
1. You could wait till your email is back up again then use the forgot password function or
2. Create a new user with a hotmail account, (since your email is down, use hotmail or any other free email service) and enter a password for that user.

Then once that users is validated, go into the database find that users password (it will be encrypted), copy it and paste it into your admin password field in the database.

Thats about the only way I can think of if you have to do it in a hurry, but it's a lot easier if you can just wait and use the forgot password function.

[}{iJacK]

but how can i reach the database?
if you said php database i dont have control panel.
if you said 4images database where can it be?

i cant  use admin panel and my site admin panel only i have my ftp logins

[Apollo13]

do u have PHPMyAdmin. With this u get acces 2 your db and there u can get your pass. BUt this is decoded with md5 so if u want 2 create a new one u have 2 write a little app with create u your pass in md5

ok write a little md5.php

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<?php
$pass = "yourpassword"; //Your pass ind words...
$pass = md5&#40;$pass&#41;;
echo $pass;
?>

than copy the created pw and replace.

[bc]

Hijack, are you trying to hack into someone else's board, or are you just very new to administrating?

the best you could do is to follow crazy sash's advice to use phpMyAdmin to alter the admin password. otherwise, you just described an odd scenario