Joomla Password Reset — Cannot Remember Joomla Admin Password

Problem: Cannot remember Joomla administrator (or any other user) password.

It’s impossible to retrieve Joomla administrator / user password, because, for security measures, it is stored in MD5-encoded string. That’s why you can only reset it. To do so, you need to have access to the database.

Solution:

• Log in to your database
• Find table jos_users
• Edit the row, which corresponds to the admin / user.
• Set the password field to: 5ebe2294ecd0e0f08eab7690d2a6ee69
• Save changes

This will reset the password to secret.
Later you can change the password easily from the Joomla back-end.

Here are more MD5-password pairs (if you want to reset the password to something different from secret):

P.S. More comprehensive information on this you can find at Joomla Documentation:
How do you recover your admin password?