I had a lot of problems for doing a successful dotnetnuke installation. When finally I got it work, now I can not enter to the initial configuration of the portal because apparently the usernames and passwords that I entered as part of the configuration overwrote the default admin and host passwords. I found one of the usernames I used but I can not remember the password. I entered at SQL 2005 db and I saw the table with the username but the password is encrypted. What can I do? I am desperate because I am out of the schedule and this is very rush. If someone can give me a solution instead of install everything again, I really would thank it a lot.

Lis

Thanks for your response, I will try that.  A question, that will also work with the admin password? Please let me know. Thanks,

Lissy

I had a simaler problem one time where I had to find the admin and host passwords for my portal.  The problem as you said is that they are encrypted, and stored in the table aspnet_membership.  Sincie DNN uses 3DES I am sure that you do not want to figure it by hand even though you have the encryption and decryption key in the web.config file.  So heres what I did

Create another User with a password that you know. 

Go into the table that stores the encrypted passwords, and find the user that you just created. 

Of course this users password is also encrypted (But you know what it is because you just created the password)

Copy that password and find the admin account.  Then replace admin account password with the password to the user account you just created

save your database and log into DNN as admin the password will be the same password as the password to the user account that you just created

Isn't it fun to hack the database

Hope this helps

Mike