How To: Change Lost Host Password

What if you forget your host password? 
You can't have a reminder sent to you because DNN does not allow super user to get their password through the send password function. The e-mail goes out, but the password is masked out.

Here is a way of changing the host password directly in the DB.

If you know the password of another user, then you can go to the aspnet_Membership table in the DB and find the Password and PasswordSalt, then copy both of these values to the Password and PasswordSalt fields of the host user. 

If you do not know the password of another user, you should be able to create a new user using the Registration form on your site.

What if you have Register disabled on your site and do not know the pw of any other users?

ETA... sometimes I should think before I post... is there an easy way to allow Register (either in the db or in the file)?

Then you may want to setup another install, and copy your MachineValidationKey and MachineDecryptionKey from the portal that you cannot get into to this new install's web.config.

On the new install you could then perform this procedure, and copy the Password, and PasswordSalt back to your DB.

Or, you could change the register function in the DB directly which is in the Portals table in the field called UserRegistration (set it to 2).

We have also provided the same solution , however also show how to sent registrations without having to do another implemenation:

http://www.technicaone.com/Default.aspx?tabid=223&EntryID=12

Cheers

Craig