All,

I have a site running 7.2 and rather than step my way up the upgrade "ladder" I decided to download a fresh copy of Umbraco (7.10.2 as of writing this) and copy my code over into the appropriate folders/places within visual studio.

From there I fixed all of my code to conform to the new Umbraco DLL changes etc.

I got the new installation working on localhost but not before I had to change my useLegacyEncoding to true in my web config. I pulled a production backup and restored it to vet my process when going to production for the upgrade.

I am now faced with not being able to log into Umbraco to upgrade the database.

I have tried the following:

1. useLegacyEncoding=true
2. getting a known password hash of "default" entered that into the umbracoUsers table
3. changing the passwordType to clear instead of hashed

NOTE: I had the same issue when upgrading my test environment and added useLegacyEncoding=true on the UsersMembershipProvider node to solve my issue

All of the above did not work for my production DB. How have you manage to solve this?