Reset Wordpress admin's password through MySQL

This tutorial is from the wordpress documentation http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password:

1. Get an MD5 hash of your password.
   • Visit md5 Hash Generator, or...
   • Create a key with Python. or...
   • On Unix/Linux:
     1. Create file wp.txt with the new password in it (and *nothing* else)
     2. md5sum wp.txt
     3. rm wp.txt
2. "mysql -u root -p" (log in to MySQL)
3. enter your mysql password
4. "use (name-of-database)" (select WordPress database)
5. "show tables;" (you're looking for a table name with "users" at the end)
6. "SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM (name-of-table-you-found)" (this gives you an idea of what's going on inside)
7. "UPDATE (name-of-table-you-found) SET user_pass="(MD5-string-you-made)" WHERE ID = (id#-of-account-you-are-reseting-password-for)" (actually changes the password)
8. "SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM (name-of-table-you-found)" (confirm that it was changed)
9. (type Control-D, to exit mysql client)

Note if you have a recent version of MySQL (version 5.x?) you can have MySQL compute the MD5 hash for you.

1. Skip step 1. above.
2. Do the following for step 7. instead.
   • "UPDATE (name-of-table-you-found) SET user_pass = MD5('new-password') WHERE ID = (id#-of-account-you-are-reseting-password-for)" (actually changes the password)

Note that even if the passwords are salted, meaning they look like $P$BLDJMdyBwegaCLE0GeDiGtC/mqXLzB0, you can still replace the password with an MD5 hash, and Wordpress will let you log in.

Notes: if the above method does not work, please use the wp-cli tool.