Reset password of an admin account - Magento

If you have forgotten the admin account password of your Magento site then you can recover this password in the following way:

  1. Login to the control panel
  2. Go to your database via MySQL.
  3. Select browse database at your database.
  4. Select the table admin_user
  5. Change the password by clicking on the password and changing it to a new password.


The new password must be converted to an MD5 hash. You can do this for example with a generator. If you search on Google for "String to MD5 hash
" you will see a number of options for this.

You then cut and paste the MD5 hash of your new password into the password field, after this you can log in with the new password.


Reset password of an admin account - Magento


If you have any further questions you can always see if there is someone on the online chat.
Or you can create a ticket in the customer panel.