Viewed 2k times. Or are there any other security measures installed I do not know of? Improve this question. Another way to look at this is There are many options but, frankly, they mostly just move the problem, rather than actually deal with it. Examples here stackoverflow. Are you asking from a development standpoint as well?
If so, and if you are using a version control system which you should be using such as GIT, then this file and other configuration sensitive files should be ignored from the repository. By doing so, no developer will know the actual password used in the production system. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.
Doug Doug 3, 1 1 gold badge 23 23 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. My concern is not that users can read the wp-config. In this case he could just read the wp-config. Shouldn't that be prevented or are todays servers that secure? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.
Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Follow the steps in this article to back up your WordPress database. Next, return to your WordPress admin panel. Log out of WordPress and log in as this new user. Before you proceed, make sure that you are able to log in, and that you have access to all areas of your WordPress admin panel. Next, delete the old user. WordPress will ask what you want to do with the content including posts, pages, and comments owned by this user. Click Attribute all content to: and select the new username from the drop-down menu.
If either you or one of your users has lost their WordPress password, WordPress can reset it and email the new one. The page will prompt you to enter either your username or your email address. The new password will be emailed to the address that is set for the username. Warning: This procedure is risky. Create a backup of your WordPress database first. The most common reason for this problem is that the email address for the account is no longer valid.
Dedicated Hosting - Powerful web hosting with dedicated hardware. Editing your WordPress database directly can damage the database if done incorrectly. Before you begin, back up your database. Connect vi SSH to your server and create a backup copy of your database from the command line.
In the following example, the database is called "mydatabase":. Your backup file dumpfile. To update the admin user's password, you will need the login name - not the display name.
If you need to find this information, you can display all login names with the command:. This will generate a new password for the account. Make a note of the new password, then change the password by clicking Update Profile. This will generate a new password for their account. Change their password by clicking Update User. Caution: Be sure their email address is correct before clicking Update User.
This is the email address where WordPress will send the new password. I know my databases credentials. Pff seems a bit difficult for me to do that , cause i dont want to break anything on the site , but i ll try. Thanks a lot for your help. Out of curiosity , is the guy lying?? Is it possible that he doesnt know the passwords from wp-admin and he developed the website differently?! No, you can not develop a WordPress site entirely without the admin. For most things, it would be possible to do so, but most uncomfortable.
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