forgot the moodle admin password of my local moodle server - passwords

Question

forgot the moodle admin password of my local moodleyour text server
i am using the version 4.1 moodle
i know the username but unfortunetly forgot the password my local moodle server.
i have tried to forgot the password i havent give the smtp address so i cant recieve the mail of reset password
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login to moodle server but
i have forgot the passwqord so i am not able to login

Answer 1

You can reset the password from the command line
php admin/cli/reset_password.php --username=admin --password=newpassword

Answer 2

Here is a more hacky approach that works provided you have access to the database.
For context, Moodle uses the PHP function password_hash() to generate a password hash for users. The basic idea is that you want to use this function in a plain PHP file outside of Moodle to output a password hash of a new password. This hash is then manually saved in the password field in your mdl_user table using your database client and your new password used to login to the site.
PHP File:
<?php
echo password_hash("new_password", PASSWORD_DEFAULT);
Example output of password_hash:
$2y$10$NCC4PVZ1kTRg4bT21yEl2eUVWMf3lkbYtczTn8vB53qNwTqtN9jwS