All Logins are BROKEN!! HELP!!!

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8/3/2009 6:30:26 PM
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All Logins are BROKEN!! HELP!!!

OK lets set one thing striaght, I'm a dope (not really but youll think so in a minute).

So I was tooling around the settings page on my site and changed the password format from Hashed to Clear text, no particular reason just seemed like a good idea at the time.

Now ALL of the user accounts for my site are broken! I've tried the recover password feature, resetting the password format in the database, changing the password in the database, all with no luck. Is there anything I can do to get back into the site? My admin accounts don't even work.

8/3/2009 6:38:18 PM
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Re: All Logins are BROKEN!! HELP!!!

Hi,

The thing is hashed passwords can't be decrypted at all, so when you changed from hashed to clear text it generated random cleartext passwords for all existing users because there is no other way to switch to clear text.

I have no solution for your user base unless you have a backup and could manually retrieve their passwords from a backup of the db.

For the admin user if you make sure the site is still currently configured for clear text in the db by looking in mp_Sites table, password format should be 0 for clear text. Then you can manually edit the admin password in the mp_Users table, then touch web.config to recycle the app then you should be able to login as admin again.

Hope it helps,

Joe

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