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How to create encrypted hash passwords for drupal 7

After searching over internet I came to know that With drupal 7, password are no more encrypted through md5.

What are possible ways to get passwords encrypted in Drupal 7??

Solution

  • With drupal 7, password are no more encrypted through md5. There are several way to get/set a password in drupal7. Using drush (for your information, not used in your case):

    drush upwd admin --password="newpassword"

    Without drush, if you have a cli access to the server : (for your information, not used in your case)

    cd <drupal root directory>

php scripts/password-hash.sh 'myPassword'

    Now copy the resultant hash and paste it into the query:

    update users set name='admin', pass='pasted_big_hash_from_above' where uid=1;