I am rather embarrased to have to ask this question - but I was rushing through a long list of jobs today, one of which was changing the admin login details for a site which I did, then signed out and tried to sign back in and couldn't........ went to the password recovery screen and put the email address is to be told username not found  can only assume I typed the email address in wrong and made a typo - argghh!  How do I get back in?

The install is done on the 2.3.5.1 using SQLCE and I haven't changed any default settings for the db / security.

OK, after my initial flapping I logged onto the server and opened the sdf file in notepad++ and did some searching and came across this line (in 2 seperate locations):

Adminadminandrewcrystal@googlemail.comandrewcrystal@googlemail.comWhat is your user name?xxxxxxxxxx (where the x's are my password)

- thought great so I used googlemail instead of gmail - typo just as I thought ........ tried again though and it still won't let me in, also touched the web config to see if that worked which it didn't - not sure on the settings for tries etc. or if they are tied to an IP address or a user so am hoping when I get home and to a different IP address I can login then, if it is due to max tries does that reset periodically?

Regards

Andrew

Oops, sorry Joe, must have been typing at the same time there - does the info above help?

Hi Joe,

I gave it 30 mins or so and tried again and all I am getting is the error - won't let me login.

I will open the site is webmatrix tonight and see if anything looks different than it appears to be in the .sdf file using notepad++ and whether I can see any problem in the user table........ I have changed passwords etc on MSSQL based mojo sites without any trouble and am wondering whether I need to do anything else such as start and stop the website, recycle the app pool etc.  the main problem is the site went live today and they want some tweaks making......

Might also be worth noting that I never had any please try later notifications.

Regards

Andrew

Hi Joe,

You were of course completely correct, once I got home where I have WebMatrix installed I took a copy of the site off the server and looked the database and realised in my haste I had confused the password with the security question answer! 

Thanks for the pointers and patience!

Regards

Andrew