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Ok, so I forgot the password for a WordPress installation I was playing around with. That makes me an idiot, but just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill idiot. The built-in WP idiot-guard, which sends you a copy of your password, didn't send me anything.

In googling around for a solution, I found lots of info about installing phpMyAdmin, a powerful tool for managing your SQL install. Except I don't want a powerful tool. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to install it, and failed.

More googling, however, revealed an extremely simple php script at (appropriately) www.village-idiot.org. You install it into your WordPress directory, you visit it in your browser, you enter a password, and then you immediately delete the script. Couldn't be simpler.