Umbraco admin password reset
# help-with-umbracok
kaykysii
10/08/2023, 11:51 AMWhat's the best way to reset admin password in Umbraco without knowing the pass?
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Ambert
10/08/2023, 4:34 PMThis is the easiest usually
Ambert
10/08/2023, 4:34 PMAmbert
10/08/2023, 4:34 PMHowever, i lately often have that even if i clear the string, you still wont get the setup..
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kaykysii
10/08/2023, 11:29 PMI found this in stack overflow but didnt really try yet, umbraco 8 is not a recent version but i think it might work too and thank you for the support
kaykysii
10/08/2023, 11:29 PM Copy code
This solution works for Umbraco 8
Find an admin user in your database
Update their password to:
WRNIcp5OKxjowAwyBbdXJw==uHFH281pvI0UQJgRdJb95T9gPT1sVXBHKhYcoW5L8LI=
To log in, use their username and that hashed password up there is actually: MyUmbracoPassword1
I came up with this because I tried the answer above and received an error that
"Cannot use ASP.Net Identity with UmbracoMembersUserStore when the password format is not Hashed"
So if you don't want to use my HASH then install a blank umbraco of the same version and setup your admin user with a password and then grab whatever the hash is for your brand new user from the database and feed it back into the system you actually want to get in to.kaykysii
10/08/2023, 11:30 PMI'm preparing for a presentation in school and they might ask me that about Umbraco
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Ambert
10/09/2023, 6:13 AMI believe that doesnt work anymore for v9 and up.
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leekelleher
10/09/2023, 9:26 AMI tend to use the built-in password reset feature. Emails you a link to reset the password. If it's localhost, then I use something like the Papercut app to pick up local SMTP.
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AaronSadlerUK
10/09/2023, 12:39 PM+1 to @leekelleher response...
I take a look in the Users database table and then request a password reset for the top most admin user, and intercept the email with papercut
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Mike Chambers
10/09/2023, 2:10 PMor smtp4dev (seem to remember having issues with papercut on some win11 builds) You can also use
SpecifiedPickupDirectory Copy code
"Smtp": {
"DeliveryMethod": "SpecifiedPickupDirectory",
"PickupDirectoryLocation": "c:/temp"
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kaykysii
10/09/2023, 5:14 PMThank you for helping @User @User @leekelleher @User
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Sebastiaan
10/10/2023, 12:04 PM+1 for Papercut and it had a bit of trouble on 1 win11 release, but it has worked on every other release (and I'm on the beta channel, go figure). I prefer it over smtp4dev as indeed that's.. "a bit of faff"
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