Manually Resetting a User Password

Sometimes you're stuck in a perfect storm of an error loop (like if your file permissions are wrong and your didn't configure your email provider correctly) and just need to reset a user's password by any means necessary.

These are those means.

1. Find the user you're looking for the users directory — they're organized by email address.
2. Open the appropriate YAML file.
3. Delete the password_hash variable.
4. Add a new password variable set to whatever you want your password to be — temporary or otherwise.
5. Visit any URL on the site and Statamic will spot that unencrypted password and hash it for you.
6. Now you can log in.

Example for the sake of clarity

Before, while you have no idea what the password is:

name: 'Mrs. Buttersworth'
super: true
id: ca095f7c-8870-4dba-bc97-8f5a43953920
password_hash: $2y$10$Sou9pAY.BXgz6xdWwji8wOdCdYo2GppvPOHBp8TEp074aQOtYl8AS

After Step 4:

name: 'Mrs. Buttersworth'
super: true
id: ca095f7c-8870-4dba-bc97-8f5a43953920
password: moresyruppleaseplzandthankyou!

After Step 5:

name: 'Mrs. Buttersworth'
super: true
id: ca095f7c-8870-4dba-bc97-8f5a43953920
password_hash: $2y$10$Vopn8T7e.EMVEjxdP5p.g.AU5GTTN4RklvgR2l0dTwSPeJal91v/q