Timeline for How do I properly update the WordPress database password?
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| S Nov 21, 2019 at 20:56 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable> and <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/low-hanging_fruit#Noun>).
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 19:47 | vote | accept | MagRat | ||
| Nov 25, 2014 at 17:22 | comment | added | MagRat | I can assure you I am looking at the live config.php file on the server. I'm realizing it is a moot point because the server is basically toast if they get access to that right? I do appreciate your assistance. | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 17:00 | comment | added | Rarst | If that was the case your site wouldn't work. :) You might be looking at the wrong configuration file or you might have more than one valid set of database credentials. | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 16:58 | comment | added | MagRat | It's very possible I am just misunderstanding all of this. My confusion lies in that the DB password in the config file is not the actual DB password. | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 16:54 | comment | added | Rarst |
@ChasesWork I am not entirely sure about your situation. MD5 isn't reversible (by purpose at least) and isn't suitable for encryption in a first place. It's not a common practice to have database password in wp-config.php to be encrypted in any way.
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| Nov 25, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | MagRat | I am not sure what was compromised, so I want to be cautious and update the password. Once I opened the file I saw it looked like it had been encrypted with MD5 hash (based on what I have read in searches). If the only way to update it is to just update the password right there in the config file (with no encryption) then that is what I will do. But having seen that it's encrypted prompted me to ask the question. | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 21:40 | history | answered | Rarst | CC BY-SA 3.0 |