One of the frustrations you will have by running a website is when you forget what is the administrator’s login password… especially if you are running Joomla CMS. I will bring you through the steps on how can you reset your password quickly and login to your backend control again.

Note: You must be able to log into the Cpanel to do this.

1. Login to your Cpanel and locate the PHPMyAdmin control.

2. Once you are in the PHPMyAdmin, select the database name on the left column for your Joomla site.

3. Select the table, jos_users by clicking the browse button in that row.

4. Now, change the value of the password to: 5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69 for the user that you want to change. Remember the user’s login name.

5. You can now login using the login name and password: secret.

6. Change your password after logging in…. and remember it hard =)

The official thread for password recovery from Joomla.org is here.