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Joomla – Recreating Super User if you delete admin account

October 11th, 2009

Add a new Super Administrator User

If changing the password won’t work, or you aren’t sure which user is a member of the Super Administrator group, you can use this method to create a new user.

  1. Navigate to phpMyAdmin and select the database for the Joomla! site in the left-hand drop-down list box. This will show the database tables on the left side of the screen.
  2. Press the “SQL” button in the toolbar to run a SQL query on the selected database. This will display a field called “Run SQL query/queries on database <your database>”.
  3. Delete any text in this field and paste in the following text (click link to show text):

recover-joomla-admin-account

4. At this point, you should be able to log into the back end of Joomla! with the username of “admin2” and password of “secret”. After logging in, go to the User Manager and change the password to a secure value and the e-mail to a valid e-mail address. If there is a chance you have been “hacked”, be sure to check that all users are legitimate, especially any members of the Super Administrator group.

The examples above change the password to “secret”. Two other possible values are shown below:

- password = "this is the MD5 and salted hashed password"
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- admin  = 433903e0a9d6a712e00251e44d29bf87:UJ0b9J5fufL3FKfCc0TLsYJBh2PFULvT
- secret = d2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199
- OU812  = 5e3128b27a2c1f8eb53689f511c4ca9e:J584KAEv9d8VKwRGhb8ve7GdKoG7isMm

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