How to retrieve forgotten password of django admin user

[Chaitu]

I want to modified the django admin login page. In this page I also
wants to display option for retrieve the forgotten password of admin
user. But I am not able to find solution for this.
Please help me for above problems.

Thanks,
Chaitanya.

[TiNo]

Read this about modifiing the admin templates:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#overriding-admin-templates

[Steve Holden]

I'm not sure it's possible to extract the plaintext password from the
MD5 hashed version, other than by crack-like guessing methods. In theory
there are an infinite number of different passwords that will give the
same hash.

You could just reset the password to some pseudo-random value and then
mail the new version to your user to let them log in again:

http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html

regards
Steve
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[TiNo]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Steve Holden <hold...@gmail.com> wrote:

Chaitu wrote:
> I want to modified the django admin login page. In this page I also
> wants to display option for retrieve the forgotten password of admin
> user. But I am not able to find solution for this.
> Please help me for above problems.
>

I'm not sure it's possible to extract the plaintext password from the
MD5 hashed version, other than by crack-like guessing methods. In theory
there are an infinite number of different passwords that will give the
same hash.

You could just reset the password to some pseudo-random value and then
mail the new version to your user to let them log in again:

http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html

This is only if you want to reset your own password. You wouldn't want to do that for every user...

There is a default view for this. See:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#django.contrib.auth.django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset