How do you recover or reset your joomla 1.5 admin password?
Normally, you can add, edit and delete users and passwords from the back-end User Manager. To do this, you must be logged in as a member of the Super Administrator group. In some situations, this may not be possible. For example, your site may have been "hacked" and had the passwords or users changed. Or perhaps the person who knew the passwords is no longer available. Or maybe you have forgotten the password that was used. In these cases, it is still possible to fix up the Joomla! database so you can log back in as a Super Administrator. There are possible methods discussed below. Use the Lost Password Feature If you have access to the email address that was used for the admin user, and you have made the "lost password" feature available on the front end, the simplest thing is to do is to use the "lost password" Front-end function. The site will send an e-mail to the user's e-mail address and allow you to change the password. Direct Editi...