How to recover / change the access passwords to the Bootstrap admin panel?

Depending on your situation, you can either change the users passwords from the admin panel, or create a new password for the main administrator.


Case 1: you can login to the Admin Panel as the Main Administrator

You can change or regenerate a new password for each user from the admin panel.

Just open the "Users" table in the Admin panel menu, & click the "Edit" button to edit the user.

Case 2: you cannot login to the Admin Panel as the Main Administrator
(lost your password)

  1. Open /conf/user-conf.json
  2. Find this code: "admin_locked":true and replace it with "admin_locked":false
  3. You can now open the admin panel, which is now unprotected.
    Open the "Users" table in the Admin panel menu, & click the "Edit" button to register your new password.

For security reasons, the passwords are encrypted and cannot be recovered. If a password has been lost, you must create a new one.

Prerequisites

To change the password strength of users who have access to the PHPCG admin panel you must beforehand:

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