osCommerce Password Reset Using phpMyAdmin
May 6th, 2008Read More oscommerce
Sometimes you need to get in there and reset the password for oscommerce using phpMyAdmin.
In these instances, you do not just paste in a new password but you have to properly encode it first.
Here is a really handy tool to create a password hash for you, ready to be pasted into phpMyAdmin
for the admin side, you will need to edit the admin table and paste this into the password field for the account you need to set the password for.

December 19th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
just in case that site ever goes down - I have lifted the code and hosted a mirror here:
osCommerce Password Generator
All credit goes to oscommercecustomsolutions.com