Disaster!
I was attempting to export my Drupal install to my Macbook a few nights ago and I hit a bit of a wall. Somewhere along the way of my migrating folders, transferring data, or cleaning up I blew out my Administrator password to my local install.
To add insult to injury I could still login with a "johnny user" account but from there I was helpless. I could reset this user's password, but recovery features failed when I attempted to do the same for my Admin account.
Thinking that all was lost I started scouring the internet for a way to reset my admin password. It turns out that I'm not the only one out there who has done this thing. After fighting with the recovery tools and trying every combination I could think of I ended up returning to lynda's drupal files and watched the video entitled "Recovering from Disasters".
Aptly named, the video taught me about the MD5 encryption (and other encryption options) that drupal uses at a core level for all passwords. After using phpMyadmin I was able to drop my password and insert a new one which I was able to encrypt myself.
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