Recovering the admin password in Orchard
These things happen, and it seems hopeless at first: you've locked yourself out of your own site and that's that. Well, not quite. If you still have access to the database there is a way out. Access may be through FTP and WebMatrix or Visual Studio if using SQL CE or through SQL Server Management Studio or whatever is your preferred way to access your database. In this tutorial I'll use WebMatrix over a local SqlCe database but other tools would work just as well with minor differences. Open the database and go to the Orchard_Users_UserPartRecord table. You should see something like this: As you can see, the passwords are stored hashed, and the password format is specified for each user. Possible values are Hashed (the default),
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