Many of the articles I pretend to post here are simply notes and/or links with solutions to frequent problems I have while using my computers or other stuff. This is one case:

The way to reset the administration password (from: https://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_recover_or_reset_your_admin_password%3F) is summarized in the following steps:

  1. Enter the MySql account
  2. Enter the associated database
  3. Enter the _users table
  4. Modify field Password by string d2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199
  5. Save changes by clicking Go button (at the bottom of the page).
  6. That's it! The password is changed to "secret" (without quotation marks).
  7. (Do not forget to change the password).