Symfony sfGuardPlugin password recovery

I am supporting a site built on symfony. There were problems regarding some kind of "admin page".

While not knowing much about the whole thing by reading the logs and comparing recent backups I think I was able to fix the issue (some developer removed a route, but did not fix a template).

I do not have admin password to the site, but have root access to the server and su开发者_如何学Goper access to the database (in this case postgres).

Can you help me how to create myself an account without knowing the current passwords?

Disclaimer: I do not have much knowledge with PHP's OOP interface as I am not a programmer, but a sysadmin.

Edit:

symfony version 1.0.16

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Try logging into the server and changing into the Symfony project's root directory. There's probably a "symfony" script/link there (the details depend on your OS and how Symfony's set up; you might be able just to run ./symfony rather than needing php symfony). Run this to see whether this basics are working:

php symfony

If that works, you should get a list of possible tasks you can do. If you're using the sfGuardPlugin, you should see some tasks like guard:create-user.

To get more information on a task, try something like:

php symfony help guard:create-user

But basically, assuming a fairly modern Symfony installation and plugin, try something like:

php symfony guard:create-user --env=prod newusername newpassword

(the --env=prod option creates the user in the production environment, which is probably what you want.)

If there are super-user-only tasks you want to do, try also doing this:

php symfony guard:promote newusername

That will give the new user super-admin privileges.

You'll probably also find a guard:change-password task which will simply reset the password for a given user.

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I ended up editing the file named:

plugins/sfGuardPlugin/lib/validator/sfGuardUserValidator.class.php

this is where the authentication takes place. I added a few lines to bypass the actual password check for an already created user.