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Drupal 8 password reset on GoDaddy without ssh


New day new challenge :) If you have a site on GoDaddy's shared hosting you get cPanel and phpMyAdmin but no ssh which is sad but that's shared hosting. Resetting the password on Drupal 8 is possible but not easy.

Use the php script on this page that you need to upload to your root of the site. I copied the script here as well.

Create a file name with hard to guess name like "mypassword.php" :)

  1. <?php
  2. use Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel;
  3. use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
  4.  
  5. if (pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_FILENAME) == 'admin-pass-reset') {
  6.   die('Please change your file name to a random string to continue');
  7. }
  8.  
  9. // Boot Drupal.
  10. $autoloader = require __DIR__ . '/autoload.php';
  11.  
  12. $request = Request::createFromGlobals();
  13. $kernel = DrupalKernel::createFromRequest($request, $autoloader, 'prod', FALSE);
  14. $kernel->boot();
  15.  
  16. // Get password hasher service.
  17. $password_hasher = $kernel->getContainer()->get('password');
  18.  
  19. // Hash password.
  20. if (isset($_GET['pass']) && !empty($_GET['pass'])) {
  21.  $newhash =  $password_hasher->hash($_GET['pass']);
  22. }
  23. else {
  24.   die('Retry with ?pass=PASSWORD set in the URL');
  25. }
  26.  
  27. // Update user password.
  28. $updatepass = Drupal::database()->update('users_field_data')
  29.   ->fields(array(
  30.     'pass' => $newhash,
  31. //  'name' => 'admin',
  32. //      'mail' => '<a href="mailto:yourmail@example.com">yourmail@example.com</a>'
  33.   ))
  34.   ->condition('uid', '1', '=')
  35.   ->execute();
  36.  
  37. // Clean user 1 cache.
  38. Drupal::cache('entity')->delete('values:user:1');
  39.  
  40. print "Done. Please delete this file as soon as possible";  

Then go to this url to reset the password.
www.example.com/mypassword.php?pass=newpassword

This will set the password of user 1 to "newpassword" or whatever argument you pass. Don't forget to delete the file as well from the server.

Enjoy and use it at your own risk.

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