So a staff member (belonging the 'editor' group) recently left, and we'd like to update the password to a dummy one but I can't seem to be able to do it as EE is asking me for the current password.
Any idea how?
Installed EE version is 2.8.0
2 Answers
The language is somewhat unclear on that screen. What you actually need to enter is your current password, not the user's current password.
answered Nov 27, 2014 at 21:57
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If you dont want to reassign the entries to another editor. I would also recommend creating a new member group that does not have CP access to prevent the user from going through the password reset flow to log back in. Nov 28, 2014 at 16:25
Why don't you just ban or delete the account?
To answer your question, one method would be to run a MySQL query update on the members table row of that member_id and insert nonsense into the password and salt fields, or better yet, take a look at the Auth library hash_password method and generate a usable password hash and salt and insert that.
answered Nov 27, 2014 at 19:10
