We maintain FAQs of our law firm Bharti & Associates (Advocates, Corporate Lawyers and IP attorneys) at http://www.bhartiassociates.com/faqs using PHPMYFAQ an open source faq manager. For security reasons, our developer changed the admin password and then forgot as usual. This led us to a big problem because we maintain many things using this faqs. Unfortunately the Forgot Password facility was also giving problems. The developer came to me with his head down and I had to put my most scarce resource to use i.e. Time. First I thought to decrypt MD5 hashed password, picked up from the database, but that would have taken days. Then I thought of using a tool MD5 Hash generator at http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php to get a text password MD5 hashed and using regular UPDATE command in mysql updated the respective table entry. Hope it does save days of headache of yours.
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