DotNetNuke- EVOQ: recover host/superuser credentials

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I installed DNN Evoq yesterday and while installation changed the default username (host) to my name and procvided a password (which i know that i remember :| ) after some time the session got expired and now i am not able to loginto my account. As the only user was Host itself, i am not able to access Host settings and can't configure SMTP settings (as described in this article:- http://www.dnnsoftware.com/wiki/smtp-settings-for-hosting-and-email-providers) and i found a very good hack to change superuser's encrypted password and password salt with the newly registered user but again the hinderence in my case is that whenever i register a new user, no new entry is added in the users table or aspnet_Membership table so this smart hack is not helping me :(

I just want to know is there anything wrong with my DNN installation or what ? I can always install a fresh copy of the software but i want to solve this problem .. Any help would be highly appreciated!

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2 Answers

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You can also just reset it from the database. The key is setting the PasswordFormat value to 0.

update aspnet_Membership 
set Password='password', PasswordFormat=0 
where Email = '[email protected]'

After that you can login with the password password. Just make sure to reset your password through the administration afterwards.

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It seems you can do this with a bit of coding. Assuming you have version 6 you can do the following steps:

It is possible to recover your DNN host password if you have access to upload files to the site. This can be done either via FTP or through the Plesk file manager. You should place this into a new .aspx file that you upload to the DNN root directory, perhaps naming it something like recoverpassword.aspx:

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<script runat="server">
    void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo uInfo = 
DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetUserById(0, 1);
        if (uInfo != null)
        {
            string password = DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetPassword(ref uInfo, String.Empty);
            Response.Write("Password: " + password);
        }
        else
        {
            Response.Write("UserInfo object is null");
        }
    }
</script>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Recover Password</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
</html>





Now visit that page on the site with your browser. It should show you your DNN host password.

IMPORTANT NOTE: YOU MUST REMOVE THIS FILE FROM YOUR SITE! If you don't, then other people will be able to easily access your host password.

source: Reset DNN host password