How to find out the password from the WordPress admin panel?

Question

Database

Hello, there is FTP access to the site, the client asked to make him an administrator on the site, because his entry as a moderator is listed, what to do if no one knows the password, it might be better to transfer the site, make a backup of the files and re-create it and paste everything there or Is there a way to find out the password from the database or something like that?

Answer 1

Hold on, the second option is the most adequate. I use it all the time ;)

Answer 2

Change the mail in the database from the desired account to your own / client - and recover the password.

Answer 3

I don’t know how it is now in 2015 .... but in the old fashioned way I went to the database, if I had access, and there I changed the password to my own ....