locked out of the manager [SOLVED]

Hi,

i have locked myself out of the manager.. i have seen the tutorial on how to unlock.. i go to change the user_attributes table in phpmyadmin but i do not see any code to change, eek!

g.

The table to change is "modx_manager_users" (assuming that you do not use another prefix than "modx").
When you browse this table you should see a record where the username is "admin".
Set the password field to a new value (do not forget to set the "MD5" encryption option!) or, if that record does not exist (which I do not believe) create a new record with "admin" as the username.

Hi,

thanks for getting back to me, do i set the password field to 0 ?

i changed it to zero, but i still get locked out.

cheers,
g

Nope. You set it - in plain text - to the password you want. By using the MD5-option it will be encrypted.
(It has to be encrypted to work in the login-screen.)

ah! thanks i have tried to do this.. but i am still locked out should i try deleting the user, than adding it again?

This would be a last resort, and might be a bit risky (due to relations to other user-tables)
Can you provide a screenshot of the admin-record in your myphpadmin?
I still believe that the encryption didn’t work. If it works you’ll see a strange sequence of characters and numbers in the password field. Do you?

hi,

i do see a stange squence of numbers and letters, but I still get the error message.

screenshot:

http://img57.imageshack.us/my.php?image=admincm8.jpg

i have fixed the problem, i deleted the user and added them again.

Fine! Strange, though. I wouldn’t have dared to delete the "undeletable" admin-user. Good to know that it works.

The admin user is not undeletable, it’s the admin role that can’t be deleted. I always make myself a new admin user and delete the default one immediately after installation; why give a potential hacker half the information he needs to break into my manager?