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 This is an older joomla 2.5 site that formerly had admin tools, but "admin tools" was removed and no longer shows a directory in the file manager of the server files...
The administrator login requires the basic "administrator" login, but is also requiring the "authentication required" second login asking for user and password....this was working fine when admin tools was installed, but i am now blocked from the admin login.

When following your workflow to go to plugins and change the "main.php" filename there are no such directories or files as advised in your troubleshooting procedures...

However, when inspecting the databases, all of the admin tools fields are still there...

If i use the standard editing of the administrators password (using phpMyAdmin) it still defaults to the two login procedure and does not work...
ALso, i can enter "anything" in the first login interface, and it still defaults to the second "authentication required" interface immediately...

Is there an alternative way to handle this, because all recommended procedures are not working?

It sounds like you have the password protection of the /administrator directory left over after Admin Tools was uninstalled. There would be .htaccess and .htpasswd files in /administrator if this is the case. You can rename or delete them to eliminate the password prompt.

thanks...that works fine!

You're welcome!

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