Create new Magento Admin user via SQL


insert into admin_user
select
(select max(user_id) + 1 from admin_user) user_id,
'FIRSTNAME' first_name,
'LASTNAME' last_name,
'myemail@noemailaddress.com' email,
'USERNAME' username,
MD5('NEWPASSWORDHERE') password,
now() created,
NULL modified,
NULL logdate,
0 lognum,
0 reload_acl_flag,
1 is_active,
(select max(extra) from admin_user where extra is not null) extra,
NULL,
NULL;

insert into admin_role
select
(select max(role_id) + 1 from admin_role) role_id,
(select role_id from admin_role where role_name = 'Administrators') parent_id,
2 tree_level,
0 sort_order,
'U' role_type,
(select user_id from admin_user where username = 'USERNAME') user_id,
'USERNAME' role_name;


Replace FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME, myemail@noemailaddress.com, USERNAME, and NEWPASSWORDHERE with the appropriate values and run this in terminal.