Resetting the administrator password?!?

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Posted by GasmanDesign on June 8, 2015 at 3:14pm

Hello Drupal TC,

I have a client who has a Drupal 7 site hosted with Go Daddy, he has access to the Admin user 1 and somehow deleted it. The kicker is he didn't back up the site and the reset password no longer works.
(Trust me, I know this is not ideal!)

I've tried reading through the community documentation and worked on a few step by step solutions, but I'm stuck. I can't seem to get it back. https://www.drupal.org/node/1023428

Anyone have any suggestions or documentation that works and/or I would be happy to hire local tech support to help me fix this issue.

Thank you,
Corey
612.203.0728

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If you have access to the

Posted by Les Lim on June 8, 2015 at 6:54pm
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If you have access to the database, you can insert a new user directly into the "users" table, setting the UID to 1 and 'mail' to your email address. You won't be able to directly input a password, but as long as the record is there, you'll be able to use the password reset form again, or "drush uli 1".