Croogo Password Reset

[Jamie G]

Hi there, I am completely new to the Croogo CMS so help would be much appreciated! :) 

Essentially, I am trying to update a website for a company I have recently started working for however an ex-employee of the company changed the password that we used to access the 'admin' area of the site, which although I did not build do believe it was based on Croogo. I was not able to reset the password using the forgot password function, so I then turned to phpMyAdmin as I would do for something similar such as Wordpress. I attempted to change the password which I saw was hashed--it first looked like an SHA1 but I was unable to decrypt the existing password so I knew this was not the case. I was just wondering how and whether it would be possible to reset the password using phpMyAdmin, or the other components that make up the site. Any help would be appreciated!

[Derek Stearns]

Create a new user and give them an admin role of 1 in phpmyadmin.  Then login with new credentials.

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Jamie G <teki...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there, I am completely new to the Croogo CMS so help would be much appreciated! :) 

Essentially, I am trying to update a website for a company I have recently started working for however an ex-employee of the company changed the password that we used to access the 'admin' area of the site, which although I did not build do believe it was based on Croogo. I was not able to reset the password using the forgot password function, so I then turned to phpMyAdmin as I would do for something similar such as Wordpress. I attempted to change the password which I saw was hashed--it first looked like an SHA1 but I was unable to decrypt the existing password so I knew this was not the case. I was just wondering how and whether it would be possible to reset the password using phpMyAdmin, or the other components that make up the site. Any help would be appreciated!

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[Jamie G]

I am creating a new user, however in the table there is an 'activation_key' field (not sure if this is a standard field or not)- I am not sure what to enter for this. For the password field, am I leaving the function blank? Thanks.

[Rachman Chavik]

If you have access to the console, you can reset it using the following command:

Console/cake Users.users reset <username> <newpassword>

The password value is hashed according to the default CakePHP's password hashing
configured mechanism. It uses the salt value specified in Config/croogo.php.

For details see CakePHP's AuthComponent::password() documentation.

[Derek Stearns]

You should not be entering a activation key. 

Use the GUI at your-domain.com/users/users/add to create the new user. This will correctly encrypt your password field. Then edit the user role in phpmyadmin. Do not add your user through phpmyadmin.

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[Jamie G]

Thanks for your reply. I'm not entirely sure which console you mean. I can access the phpMyAdmin console so anything from there I can change. I also have access to the site's FTP. If you would know the links for how I would be able to access the Cake console would I be able to reset?

[Jamie G]

Thanks for getting back to me. When I go to that address, the site prompts me to log in yet the issue I have is the admin password has been changed and I am unable to log into the site in order to add a new user!

[Derek Stearns]

The console referred to is a bit complicated to set up if you don't have admin rights or have the ability to SSH.

Go to your users controller depending on your version it will be in:

App/plugin/users/users

Or 

App/vendor/users/users

$this->Auth->allow('*');

You should be able to see the add a new user page then.

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