Mediawiki - recover admin rights
Let say you have MediaWiki installation but you lost admin credentials. If you have other account or if you could create one without any rights we’re in home 😉 We have few options to do this. Reset admin password We have to connect to database and use this SQL: UPDATE `user` SET user_password = CONCAT( SUBSTRING(user_password, 1, 3), SUBSTRING(MD5(user_name), 1, 8), ':', MD5(CONCAT(SUBSTRING(MD5(user_name), 1, 8), '-', MD5('new password')))) WHERE user_name = 'Admin'; Just replace Admin with your username and new password with your password. ...