Hi all, I did install Umbraco CMS 51 and when I go to the admin page http://mysite:123/Umbraco it asks me for a username and password. I honestly do not remember ever giving this during the install is there any way I can reset this to some known quantity. BTW, I have checked the forum for the answer to this and even though I have found answers none of them seem to be working for me.
Thinking about it, that wouldn't even help anyway - the login details which are stored in web.config are of the SQL server login, not the Umbraco login
Umbraco login details are stored in the umbracoUser table and it's encrypted: If you try to chage it in there, it won't work.
What could work is:
1 - Start a new installation of Umbraco as a completely separate site
2 - create user
3 - go to Umbracouser tabel in SQL server and copy the encrypted password
4 - go to that table in your broken site, paste the encrypted password in
Thanks for the input, Richard. I installed on a completely different computer and now I have a better understanding of the process. I got to quit doing these sorts of things in the wee hours of the morning. :)
I will next install a new site as you said and see what happens.
Cannot remember username and password
Hi all, I did install Umbraco CMS 51 and when I go to the admin page http://mysite:123/Umbraco it asks me for a username and password. I honestly do not remember ever giving this during the install is there any way I can reset this to some known quantity. BTW, I have checked the forum for the answer to this and even though I have found answers none of them seem to be working for me.
Thanks
If you open your web.config file in text editor, the username and password should be in the connection string
The main web.config has this for a connection string -
<connectionStrings></connectionStrings>
I set my database connection up to use integrated security so therefore no username password. Any other ideas?
Thinking about it, that wouldn't even help anyway - the login details which are stored in web.config are of the SQL server login, not the Umbraco login
Umbraco login details are stored in the umbracoUser table and it's encrypted: If you try to chage it in there, it won't work.
What could work is:
1 - Start a new installation of Umbraco as a completely separate site
2 - create user
3 - go to Umbracouser tabel in SQL server and copy the encrypted password
4 - go to that table in your broken site, paste the encrypted password in
5 - Tattoo the password to your arm!
Thanks for the input, Richard. I installed on a completely different computer and now I have a better understanding of the process. I got to quit doing these sorts of things in the wee hours of the morning. :)
I will next install a new site as you said and see what happens.
Did you manage to salvage your password using my suggestion?
My customer is in war with is web developer and now I have to find the username and password.
Here's what i've got in connection string
<connectionStrings>
<remove name="umbracoDbDSN" />
<add name="umbracoDbDSN" connectionString="Data Source=|DataDirectory|\Umbraco.sdf" providerName="System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0" />
<!-- Important: If you're upgrading Umbraco, do not clear the connection string / provider name during your web.config merge. -->
</connectionStrings>
My programing is rusty and I can't login. Please Help
Thanks
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