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If you're a plonker like me and have forgotten a password, you have 2 options:

  1. Call the 'aspnet_Membership_ResetPassword' sproc.
  2. Simply update the aspnet_membership table manually by copying the password and passwordSalt column values from another user (whose password you know).  Here's some code I used:

declare @u uniqueidentifier
set @u = (select userid from aspnet_users where username = 'userwhosepswdyouknow')

UPDATE aspnet_Membership
SET
  [Password] = (select password from aspnet_membership where userid = @u),
  [PasswordSalt] = (select passwordsalt from aspnet_membership where userid = @u)
WHERE userid = (select userid from aspnet_users where username = 'userwhosepswdyoudontknow')

select password, passwordsalt from aspnet_membership m

HTH

Tim

 

posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:31 PM

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# re: Resetting DNN or asp.net membership password and password salt 5/28/2006 2:17 PM Mike
Guess I'm a plonker like you. Thanks - that helped!

# re: Resetting DNN or asp.net membership password and password salt 1/2/2007 3:00 PM Paige
Hi, My name is Paige, and I'm a plonker....

Thanks for much, this was very helpful.

# re: Resetting DNN or asp.net membership password and password salt 3/13/2007 7:36 PM Martijn
Hi, My name is Martijn, and I'm a plonker...
Thanks, you saved my day!

# Resetting DNN or asp.net membership password and password salt 4/17/2007 10:49 AM Darkware, Inc. Blog
I am a big plonker...  this really helped me!FFrom: http://geekswithblogs.net/timh/archive/2005/09/28/55414.aspxIf you're a plonker like me and have forgotten a password, you have 2 opt ...

# re: Resetting DNN or asp.net membership password and password salt 4/11/2008 3:08 AM Saj
large plonker
thanks

# re: Resetting DNN or asp.net membership password and password salt 9/24/2008 5:57 PM Blackberry
Thank you very much. You helped me a lot.

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