How to Change User Password in SMF?

SMF is one of the most popular lightweight Forum management systems. It can even run smoothly on the machines having low resources. SMF (Simple Machines Forum) has a rich administration panel that allows you to manage almost everything on your Forum, like creating a new board, changing Data to UTF-8, checking Attachment integrity and much more.

It also provides a great interface to manage users. You can change user information as well as the user’s password. In this guide, we will see how to change user password in the SMF admin panel. To do so, you must have admin access to the SMF.

So, let us start the tutorial. Log in to your SMF admin panel and click on the Admin option from the main navigation bar.

In the Admin section, you will find a sub-menu containing options like Main, Configuration, Forum, Members and Maintenance. From those options, hover over the Members option to find a new drop-down menu. From the drop-down menu, click on the Members option.

 

On Members page, you will find a list of members registered to your Forum. Find a user you want to update and click on the user’s username.

 

It will show you the profile of a user. You will also find a menu with options Profile Info, Modify Profile and Actions. From those options, Hover over the Modify Profile option and click on the Account settings option from the drop-down menu. For reference, see the following screenshot.

On this page, you will find two fields to enter and verify the new password, just like the following image.

Enter the password and confirm it. Once you are ready to update the user’s profile, click on the Change profile button given at the bottom-right corner of the page.

So, this is how you can change the user password in SMF. Please let us know in the comment section if you want our help with this tutorial, we will reply as soon as possible with help.