Re: Retrieve object model admin userid & password?

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Tim Sawyer <list.django@calidris.co.uk> wrote:

You can't retrieve the password, as that would be a security flaw.  The security works by hashing the password entered into the login form, and comparing the hashed version with the one stored on the database.  Hash functions are quick to run one way, but difficult to reverse, hence it's difficult to get back the password used.

You can reset a users password in the admin site - login to admin, open the user up, then use the change password link next to the user's password field.

This, of course, supposes that the password you've forgotten isn't the only admin password.  If it is, then you could delete the row from the auth_user database table and do a syncdb - that should prompt you to create a superuser, if I recall correctly.

Yes, yes and yes.

If you have console access, you can also do this:

manage.py changepassword username_goes_here

That will allow you to reset anybody's password; superuser or otherwise.

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Regards,
Ian Clelland
<clelland@gmail.com>

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