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  • Philip Johnson 3 posts 23 karma points
    Nov 02, 2015 @ 10:15
    Philip Johnson
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    Reset Admin Password in Umbraco 7.3.1

    I recently had a problem where I could not log into an Umbraco site on my dev machine.

    I am not sure why the password went missing. I believe the latest version of Umbraco generates a unique salt for every password in the system, and it doesn't allow the password format="Clear" method either.

    Please can someone tell me what is the easiest, quickest way to restore the situation if the admin password is forgotton? If I had entered a lot of content into the site this would have been a big deal, as it was I just deleted the site and started again.

    The only other thing to add is that my MAC address has changed on my dev machine due to a new motherboard being fitted, so maybe thats why creating a new site and then copying the password hash over from that into my old site didn't work...

  • John Seto 37 posts 98 karma points
    Nov 23, 2015 @ 22:54
    John Seto
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    I've seem to have had this issue too. On my test dev I always use password123 but it seems to have forgotten this...

  • Jeffrey Schoemaker 408 posts 2138 karma points MVP 8x c-trib
    Nov 24, 2015 @ 06:35
    Jeffrey Schoemaker
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    Hi

    You can always copy paste a password from another database where you do know the password. Copy pasting the password-field should be enough.

    Good luck, Jeffrey

  • John Seto 37 posts 98 karma points
    Nov 24, 2015 @ 08:07
    John Seto
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    Thanks Jeffrey, I reset the password but it still didn't work then I checked the logs and found the only account (admin) was locked.

    I didn't think this was possible,

  • Jeffrey Schoemaker 408 posts 2138 karma points MVP 8x c-trib
    Nov 24, 2015 @ 08:38
    Jeffrey Schoemaker
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    Hi John,

    that is possible. I think an account is locked after 10 invalid password attempts. In the same table you have to set the columns 'userDisabled' and 'userNoConsole' to 0.

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