Forgot admin password for admin panel

Question

My client forgot admin password.

We use magento 2.1

How can change password in database?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Follow this: https://www.siteground.com/kb/how_to_reset_admin_password_in_magento/

UPDATE admin_user SET password = CONCAT(SHA2('xxxxxxxxNewPassword', 256), ':xxxxxxxx:1') WHERE username = 'ADMINUSERNAME';

Or you can follow this to create new admin user and when you logged in you can edit the old account How to reset lost admin password in Magento 2?

Answer 2

Magento2 you can use this command to set admin password

/bin/magento admin:user:create --admin-user="admin" --admin-password="Abc@123456" --admin-email="test@example.com" --admin-firstname="Admin" --admin-lastname="Admin"