Resetting your FusionNews password

Hiya there! Here is a handy tutorial below for resetting your FusionNews password (if you use FusionNews) written by JirachiFan. Click on the images to go to the full size. ;3


FAQ

Q: What is Fusion News?
A: Fusion News is a news management software like CuteNews

Q: What is MD5?
A: MD5 stands for Message Digest 5, it's a type of one-way encryption.

Q: How to decrypt MD5?
A: It's impossible, but you can try to Google search the MD5 hash.

Forgot your password on Fusion News? and you can't recover your password via email? Here's a way to reset your password. In this tutorial, we used the string "password" as the new password.

step 1

Find the Fusion News' directory, and open users.php

step 2

After line 2, the users will be listed. All users' data were stored in that file, and the first line is to stop from showing users' data. Scroll right, and you will find an unreadable string, it's a MD5 hash, MD5 is a type of one-way encryption There is no way to decrypt MD5 hash, but you can reset it.

step 3

Find a random MD5 encoder, and type the new password as the string to be encoded, in this picture, we used the string "password as the string and it returned "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99" as the hash.

step 4

Now replace the MD5 hash, and save the file(in the selection shown below). and it's all done.

-Written by JirachiFan

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