Did you forget your Drupal User 1 password?

After a long day of work and more work I decided to do a little more work... I was just getting started in a project for a new client with a Drupal site that was in development (almost done). I was given all of the access information, however; I was not able to access the site as user1.

Well, if I can't access the site as user1, then I'm pretty stuck.

The problem was not the username that I was provided, I know this because I could see the name in the database table. It was the password, it wasn't the right one.

So I sent an email to the original developer, who just happens to be ultra cool and helpful. I figured I'd hear back in short order and be on my way working on the site.

Imagine my shock when he did not give me the password. There was no password on the email... I scanned it several times looking for where he would have put it... he didn't...

There was only a link, http://drupal.org/node/68286, and a wink ;-)

What the heck! am I going to do! with a link?
As it turns out... A LOT!

You see this guy didn't just give me the password, o-no, he is much better, quicker, and smarter than that. He gave me something better... "How to reset the password of user 1" and it works like a charm! It's not the type of thing you will need every day, or every week, and maybe not but once or twice an entire year... but it's good to have in your bag of Drupal tricks.