How to reset a BoonEx Dolphin 7.0.0 admin password

So I recently installed BoonEx’s Dolphin, version 7.0.0 just to see what it was all about.

After a couple hours of playing around with various settings and what not I logged out and went to sleep. The next day, I wanted to log back in and mess around with creating some new pages and what not. Well… for some reason the admin password I used successfully yesterday wasn’t working any more!!

So I did a Google search and tried a couple things that others had recommended. All of which involved using an MD5 has creator and replacing the MySQL entry in the database for the admin account with the new MD5 hash.

Well that has a problem. As off (at least) version 7.0.0 they implement a “SALT” variable which gets blended with your password when it’s created to create a unique MD5 hash. So even if you know what your password breaks out to in MD5, that extra SALT makes it impossible to use an Un-SALTed MD5 hash.

Whew, thats a lot of explaining for such a simple fix. So here is the default BoonEx Dolphin 7.0.0 entries for the SQL database for the admin account with a password of ‘password’.

Fire up what ever method you use to get to your MySQL database, go to your “Profiles” table and modify everything mentioned below:

The password field should read: 882abb87ace4024e7f163b6bfd58fb0bb39028e2

The SALT field should read: YTlmM2Vh

Make sure Status is set to “Active” and role is set to “3″.

Hope this helps you out. If all else fails you can upload your ‘install’ folder again and navigate to ‘http://www.yoursite.com/install/index.php’ and run through the install process again. I dont believe there should be any corruption of data if you do this.

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