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Update password reset documentation (matrix-org#7782)
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Signed-off-by: Aaron Raimist <aaron@raim.ist>
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Password reset
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If a user has registered an email address to their account using an identity
server, they can request a password-reset token via clients such as Riot.

A manual password reset can be done via direct database access as follows.
Users can reset their password through their client. Alternatively, a server admin
can reset a users password using the `admin API <docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst#reset-password>`_
or by directly editing the database as shown below.

First calculate the hash of the new password::

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