coketcho
You are using such an old, outdated version that is no longer supported. I would highly suggest upgrading as soon as you are able to login again. As far as not being able to login if it gives you Access Denied that's somewhat good as it means the system took the credentials and tried to verify it. So we know it's likely an issue with the session or an issue at the account level (with the credentials). Just to test you should clear all cache/cookies/sessions and even use an entirely different browser and network. If that doesn't work then search online for a bcrypt generator, set it to 8 rounds entropy, type in a temporary password, copy the bcrypt hashed string, go to the database, find the staff you want to login as, and replace the passwd value with the hashed string you copied. At that point you should be able to login as the staff member with the temporary password you typed for the hash. If not, then you have deeper issues that you need to debug (as in check all possible logs on the server like PHP error logs, mysql error logs, webserver error logs, etc.).
Cheers.
