strange problem

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I have a website, but couldn't log in to my admin page

I checked phpmyadmin, and saw the password is stored in the long, encrypted thing. (Salt? Hash? something like that!)

I thought i'd try and copy the long encrypted string and input that as my password, and it logged in fine.

That's strange.

What could have caused that?!

 

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OK, went into the admin panel

Tried changing my password back to normal text.

Current password using the long encrypted string wasn't accepted, yet my normal text password was.

Changed it to something else, had to re-log in

But then the new, normal text password was wrong.
Back to phpmyadmin, got the encrypted string, and could log in with that.

Very strange!?