Joomla admin password forgotten

note: please make a backup manually via the control panel before you do this!

When you forgetthe "; admin"; password of a Joomla website, you will not be able to log into the Joomla backend section as an Administrator.

A solution can be to change the password directly in the MySql database.
For this you need access to the database through a program like PhpMyAdmin. This can be accessed directly in the control panel under MySQL -> browse database.

1. Log in through PhpMyAdmin with the database username and password of the database user.
2. On the top left side in PhpMyAdmin, select the database used for the Joomla installation
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3. On the left side, click on the table "jos_users" (or users).
4. Click on "Browse".
5. Click on the edit symbol (pencil) that appears on the left side of the user with the username "admin".
6. Change the value of the "Password" field to: 21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3 .
7. Click on the "Go" button.
8. Close PhpMyAdmin

The admin password has now changed to: ";admin";

Change this password immediately after logging into the Joomla backend section at ";Usermanagement".