title: Umbraco - reset admin password
body: <p>Is it possible? I was playing around with Umbraco, got it started up last week (just got it up and running, didn't do anything beyond that) and by Monday I'd forgotten the password. I looked <a href="https://our.umbraco.org/forum/using/ui-questions/4790-ouch-forgot-admin-password-how-to-reset?p=2" rel="nofollow">here</a>, but none of the suggestions seem to work. Changing the membership provider to <code>Clear</code> here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;add name="UmbracoMembershipProvider" type="Umbraco.Web.Security.Providers.MembersMembershipProvider, Umbraco" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" minRequiredPasswordLength="8" useLegacyEncoding="true" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" defaultMemberTypeAlias="Member" passwordFormat="Hashed" /&gt;
      &lt;add name="UsersMembershipProvider" type="Umbraco.Web.Security.Providers.UsersMembershipProvider, Umbraco" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" minRequiredPasswordLength="8" useLegacyEncoding="true" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" /&gt;
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  <p>If I change <code>UmbracoMembershipProvider</code> to <code>Clear</code>, it doesn't seem to do anything. If I change <code>UserMembershipProvider</code> to <code>Clear</code> then the whole site breaks (it complains that you can only use Umbraco with ASP.NET identity if it's set to <code>Hashed</code>).</p>
  
  <p>All the suggested hashes to replace the <code>userPassword</code> don't seem to work. Setting the <code>userPassword</code> to an empty string doesn't work because the UI won't allow an empty string as a password, and the backend will check it and complain too.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any simple, fool-proof way to reset the damn thing without uninstalling and starting over?</p>