How to recover / change the access passwords to the Bootstrap admin panel?
Depending on your situation, you can either change the users passwords from the admin panel, or create a new password for the main administrator.
Case 1: you can login to the Admin Panel as the Main Administrator
You can change or regenerate a new password for each user from the admin panel.
Just open the "Users" table in the Admin panel menu, & click the "Edit" button to edit the user.
Case 2: you cannot login to the Admin Panel as the Main Administrator
(lost your password)
- Open
/conf/user-conf.php
- Find the
ADMIN_LOCKED constant, and replace the value ("true") with "false" (without the quotes)
- You can now open the admin panel, which is now unprotected.
Open the "Users" table in the Admin panel menu, & click the "Edit" button to register your new password.
For security reasons, the passwords are encrypted and cannot be recovered. If a password has been lost, you must create a new one.
Prerequisites
To change the password strength of users who have access to the PHPCG admin panel you must beforehand: