Sunday, April 20, 2025

Reset WordPress Admin Password via MySQL Command Line


mysql -umyUserName -paVeryStrongPassword

show databases;
 
use myWordpressDB;

SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM wp_users;

UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass=MD5('YourNewStrongPassword') WHERE ID = 1;

SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM wp_users;

Linux command to find user who failed to login from pop/imap

 journalctl -u dovecot -g "auth failed" grep -i "auth failed" /var/log/mail.log | grep -E "imap|pop" journalct...