Password Reset Question(s)

Hi Carbon and all,

I started my day out like so many of you by discovering all of a sudden that my AGB admin password won't work anymore.

I'm trying to understand AGB and I have a couple of questions.

(1) What's going on with AGB that the password suddenly stops working and the code has to be edited to regain admin access? This is a frequent topic here.

(2) Where does the password in the admin/config.inc.php file come from? One of the repair steps is to locate the password in the admin/config.inc.php file and change it. The password I found there was not my password. It looked scrambled or random.

My question is.. was it scrambled, random, hacked, AGB code or what?

(3) This is not password related but I found it today also.
The greeting at the top of my AGB index page was changed to this..

"Welcome to the WVFD Guestbook...keep it clean,
or it will be trashed!"

I didn't put that there. Is it AGB code or hacked?

FYI, the AGB passwordreset.zip patch worked very nicely to my great relief. Thank you so much for making it. Reading all the threads to try to learn AGB troubleshooting is tedious and I don't understand most of it anyway.

Thanks for the clarity,

Cheers,
NewtonLoops

1 - The function used to encrypt the password was changed recently by the makers of MySQL and as such the old stored password suddenyl became incorrect after an upgrade.

2 - The password stored in the config file is the password to access your database and has nothing to do with the guestbooks password. I only request it in the reset script as a layer of security in case the script is left on the server.

3 - Sounds like somebody has edited your lang/english.php file.