Question

I have a local install of Magento on my Mac using MAMP. I need to retrieve my password, but the lost password is obviously not working out of the box.

Is there a way with MAMP to use the lost password feature (e.g. by activating a mail sever)?

Answer 1

The default login is : admin The
default password is : 123123

If you are having troubles and want to
reset it to a different password, just
run at your sql database:

SELECT * FROM admin_user;

Then, find
the username you want to modify in the
listing provided – ‘admin’ in this
example. Then, to update the password,
type:

UPDATE admin_user SET
password=CONCAT(MD5('qXpassword'),
':qX') WHERE username='admin';

‘qX’
would be changed to whatever you want
it to be and same goes for ‘password’

You can also do this in phpMyAdmin,
find the admin_user field and choose
MD5 when updating password.

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