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Semako96 (talkcontribs)

I need to reset the passwort of the account I use for my bot in my wiki, since I forgot it a long time ago. As I forgot to set an email adress and can't use the maintenance script, I need to do it via the DB (of course backed up the table in question before trying anything). The SQL command looks like that

UPDATE `user` SET user_password = CONCAT(':pbkdf2:sha256:10000:128:', 'another-string', 'another-key') WHERE user_name = 'someuser';

according to Manual:Resetting passwords, but I don't know what I need to insert as 'another-string' and 'another key'. It would be enough to set an one-letter-password to allow me to log in with that account and change it afterwards.

Can someone help me?

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

If you can update the db, why not provide an email for the user and just recover it that way?

Semako96 (talkcontribs)

Yeah, I am so dumb, I should have known that easy way to do that. Done, I can use that account again ;)