Thread:Project:Support desk/Can't Change Password Via phpMyAdmin!/reply

Hi!

Passwords are calculated differently from what you think they were. The alogrithm you used is only used in MediaWiki 1.12 and older. Current versions use this algorithm:

UPDATE `user` SET user_password = CONCAT(':B:somesalt:', MD5(CONCAT('somesalt-', MD5('somepass')))) WHERE user_name = 'someuser';

assuming that $wgPasswordSalt is true in LocalSettings.php.

See Manual:Resetting_passwords for more information.