How to reset the administrator username and password in Umbraco 8

To reset the username and password for Umrbaco 8 I like to do with within the startup even.

To do this simply create a new class.cs file with the following code.

using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Optimization;
using Umbraco.Core.Composing;
using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Core.Services;
namespace Website.Core.Events
{
[RuntimeLevel(MinLevel = RuntimeLevel.Run)]
public class StartingComposer : IUserComposer
{
public void Compose(Composition composition)
{
composition.Components().Append<StartingEvent>();
}
}public class StartingEvent : IComponent
{
private readonly IUserService _userService;public StartingEvent(IUserService userService)
{
_userService = userService;
var adminUser = _userService.GetUserById(0);
adminUser.Username = adminUser.Email = "enter the new username here";
adminUser.FailedPasswordAttempts = 0;
adminUser.IsLockedOut = false;
adminUser.IsApproved = true;
adminUser.RawPasswordValue = "enter new password here";
userService.Save(adminUser);
}
public void Initialize()
{
}
public void Terminate()
{
}
}
}

Posted by David Armitage on 27 Jul 2020

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David Armitage

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