Data Base (change Password For Admin)

HI
I am testing hosting from a small home server running ubuntu.
I have it up and running but I can't login. This box doesn't have a mail server yet as I'm just doing testing. I can't use forgot password link as a result. I've imported the same database from the actual site I have it running live on. Everything else seems to be working except login.


I tried changing the password using phpmyadmin using MD5 encoding (that's what wordpress uses) and it did not work.
Do you use a different encoding on the passwords?
Any other advice on how I can login as admin?

Edited Sat Jan 23, 21 11:51 AM by Jeff Owen

It has a more complete encryption that MD5.

You can delete the row with the admin login from the ms_admins table. Then when you go to your Sytist admin it will prompt you to create a new login.

But if you can't login and it doesn't say that information is incorrect and just seems to refresh the page, see this:
https://www.picturespro.com/sytist-manual/common-issues/cant-log-into-admin-page-refreshes-no-error-message/

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