How to reset WordPress Admin Password via MySQL Command Line

2020-04-22 By Aaron 24310 Views linux wordpress cms_application

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In WordPress, there is more than one way to reset your password if you are using Linux OS. Here is the step to reset the password via the MySQL command line.

Step 1 : Generating MD5 hash for WordPress admin password

Try to change the current password admin123 to wpadmin123.

Create a file called wp.txt, containing nothing but the new password.
```
# vi wp.txt
```
Run the below command to get the MD5 string.
```
# tr -d ‘\r\n’ < wp.txt | md5sum | tr -d '-'
```
Now you will get the MD5 string of the new password wpadmin123 that you have saved in the file wp.txt.

Please save the MD5 string locally.
Run the below command to remove the file wp.txt.
```
# rm -rf wp.txt
```

Step 2 : Updating the admin password through MySQL using the newly generated MD5 hash string

Log in to MySQL with the below command.
```
# mysql -u root -p
```
Enter your MySQL password.
Run the below commands to use the WordPress database and show the table name with wp_users. Here we are using the below database and user for testing.

WordPress DB: wordpress

WordPress User: wp_user
```
> use wordpress;

> show tables;
```
Run the below command to get an idea of what’s going on inside.
```
> SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM wp_users;
```
From here you can see the MD5 string of the current password of the database WordPress.

Now you can reset the password of your WordPress admin with the below command.

> UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass=('8221bbe0c8e475a295b7533c047a68c7') WHERE user_login = 'admin';

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Now check with the below command if the password has changed.

> SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM wp_users;

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How to reset WordPress Admin Password via MySQL Command Line

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