Manually alter administrator password and forums

[yojoe]

GetSimple might be using a a salt value. This means that the SHA1 hash is not a hash of the password but of a string consisting of password and salt. You can swap the SHA1 values in the file, but for it to work you will need to include the salt string in your replacement hash.

Ahhh it might be the solution.
So, how exactly should I create the <PWD></PWD> hash ?
Because combining salt string and new password (creating hash from both or only one value) doesn't want to log me in.

It was late when I was posting the question. Now I thought I'd just have my own user.xml file, and replace it when needed. I forgot that I turned on salt feature, so I suppose replacing the file would work on other getsimple instances with different salt strings :\

btw. there's an <apikey> value in authorization.xml
May I ask what is the meaning of this value ?


edit: I'll have to try turning off temporary salt option in config file to use only password hash.

edit2: yeah, above method is working, but I still wonder how to change the string w/o turning off login salt feature