Tag Archives: security

Reset all user passwords in Joomla!

I found myself needing this script for some nonsense reason involving tech-averse users an an intranet. I decided to document it below for posterity. It’s real dirty, so use at your own risk.

Change the default Joomla! database table prefix

Don’t be a sucker. The easiest way to give a hacker a head start on your Joomla installation is to use the default table prefix for your database. In the 1.5 days, the installation process always defaulted to “jos_”, but nowadays, I think they’ve eliminated this security risk by generating a unique prefix for you. […]

.htaccess Basic Authenticaton

To restrict access to everything in a directory and everything below it, set up an .htaccess file and a corresponding password file. Generating the .htpass file Method 1 The -c directive creates a file .htpass in the directory somepath/outside/of/root/ containing a username user1. Be careful as this will overwrite an existing file of the same […]