It is very common thing for clients having Joomla based websites to forget their password. It is possible to reset password from jos_users table using PhpMyadmin. But it is much
# mysql -u root -p
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mysql> USE joomla_site;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed
mysql> UPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( ‘new_password’ ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = “administrator” ;
Replace "new password", string with whatever new password is necessary
Change “administrator” or admin with joomla's admin username.
There you, go Joomla admin password is changed 🙂