questions about admin email address

[ferby]

Is the admin email address stored in multiple places or just one? Where?

What are the consequences of having no email address, just having it blank, for the admin account?

Because I did fill in an email when installing the site, but there was an email send error, and the email field is blank once I finished the installation.

[datiswous]

You cannot recover access to GS admin when you forgot your password. Afaik that's the only thing..

[Timbow]

You cannot recover access to GS admin when you forgot your password. Afaik that's the only thing..

And it's stored in Admin/Users in an xml file. 

Now I think - do some plugins use it? p01contact? GSBlog?

[ferby]

You cannot recover access to GS admin when you forgot your password. Afaik that's the only thing..

But, since I have FTP access I could just manually edit the password in the admin user xml file right?

[Timbow]

You cannot recover access to GS admin when you forgot your password. Afaik that's the only thing..

But, since I have FTP access I could just manually edit the password in the admin user xml file right?

Not exactly. The password is encrypted. But if you copy the encrypted form of a known password from another GetSimple site, that will get you in.

[shawn_a]

Its sha1
If using a salt in gsconfig you will also have to turn that off when you change it

[shawn_a]

Sending probably failed because you either do not have smtp or you can try setting the from account in gsconfig

[ferby]

Thanks for the clear and quick answers!