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    Hello,

    Just locked myself out of the backend....

    How much time has to pass for the lock out to expire? I know my password but I wasnt paying attention to the caps lock....
    • It's usually one hour. You can get into the database, though, and 0 out the blocked and blockeduntil as well as the failedlogincount fields for your user in the user_attributes table.
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        Quote from: sottwell at Oct 28, 2013, 12:51 PM
        It's usually one hour. You can get into the database, though, and 0 out the blocked and blockeduntil as well as the failedlogincount fields for your user in the user_attributes table.
        I actually tried but it seems that the DB has a different username and pass to access it.

        Im back in smiley
        • You can always find your database username and password in your core/configs/config.inc.php file.

          Ooops... just remembered that this is for Evo; that'll be the manager/includes/config.inc.php file!
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            Quote from: sottwell at Oct 28, 2013, 04:01 PM
            You can always find your database username and password in your core/configs/config.inc.php file.

            Ooops... just remembered that this is for Evo; that'll be the manager/includes/config.inc.php file!
            Thanks! smiley I was looking for that file but could not find it.