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To reset a wordpress password, first generate the hash:

perl -e 'use Digest::MD5(md5_hex);print md5_hex("the_password"),"n";'

then update the password in the database:

mysql
mysql>select * from wp_users;
mysql>update wp_users set user_pass='the_hash_string' where ID=xx;
mysql>exit


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