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Right, I had some trouble with someone trying to hack my site, I changed the passwords used to log into newspro to something random, which I had saved in a text file, and in my firefox's password list.

Sadly my PC was unwell, and had to be formatted, with me forgetting to backup this password, I now can't remember it.

Is there a way to recover it, or to reset it?

Thanks

You can log into phpMyAdmin, or whatever administration center you have for your databases, and navigate to the newspro database and the unp_user table. Then replace the password directly from there.

The password is hashed with MD5, so to create one in the valid format, you can go here and enter your password. It will generate an MD5 string. Take this string, and add !#56 to the beginning of it and ZHj98/&t to the end of it. Then, copy the resulting line into the MD5 generator again and copy the resulting hash into your database.

Thanks, that works like a charm