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Hi there. This is my first time working with GetSimple, so I apologize if the answer is obvious. A client of mine has asked me to help him make some simple updates to his pre-existing website, which was built using GetSimple. He has no way to get a hold of the developer who made his site, and he does not know his username or password to log-in to the admin area. Is there a way to find his username by using the email associated with his account? When I click forgot password, it looks like it requires a username. Any advice would be most appreciated. Thanks!
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If you have ftp access you can upload a new user file to data/users, or edit the existing to a known password.
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Thanks Timbow. Unfortunately, I don't even have ftp access. My client literally only knows his domain name.
Any other ideas?
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your client should ask his hoster for ftp credentials
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In answer to your question yes there is a username and password and an email address normally given on the initial install. Only one user by default but there is a widely used multi-user plugin. You would need to know the username to get the reset password email.
If you don't have a username or a password and you don't have ftp I'm sorry to say that I hope you are securely locked out!
If you had a backup of the site you could easily reproduce it elsewhere with a new login. If it's a simple site you could reproduce it elsewhere just by copying the html and other files which are publicly available and reconstructing it.
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Hmmm, if there are backups they would have the username in it. Or any previous emails from the site..
Do you have cpanel access, do any pages say author ?