Lost password...

[Macromedia]

I designed a password for a client using DWMX, and then integrated
Contribute 2. Now, a year later, my client is finally ready to use
Contribute, but both he and I have lost the password... Now I don't know how
to access the site anymore. There isn\t a lost password option, is there?

Rogier Bos
Rotterdam, Holland, (newbie to Contribute)

[Alan]

> Now, a year later, my client is finally ready to use
> Contribute, but both he and I have lost the password...

an older post-

See below to reset the contribute admin password or just remove contribute
enabled functions.

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***method one)

If you don't care about the current Users and groups settings being WIPED
OUT this is quick:

1) connect to remote site with a different ftp client (because the folder is
hidden in dreamweaver's ftp)

2) at the root level of the remote site, find the _mm folder that contains
contribute.xml and delete it.

3) You can now connect with dreamweaver and go into dw or contribute and set
it up all over.

***method two)
If you want to preserve the current users and groups settings-

1 )Use a different ftp client (because the _mm folder is hidden in
Dreamweaver)
connect to site.
Find the _mm folder, open it.
download the contribute.xml file to your machine.

2) Open the contribute.xml file in a text editor.
Find this line, near top of file:
<admin_password value='4E2B443FF7blahblahblah27CECD38FB8' />

3)click in cursor, and delete the value, change to this:
<admin_password value='' />
---That is two 'single quote marks' with nothing between them---
Save the file.

4) go back to ftp client.
connect to remote site, and go back to _mm folder.
Rename the existing remote contribute.xml file to contributebak.bak (just
in case something is messed up and you want to revert)
Upload the changed contribute.xml file you just edited.

5) Now open Dw (or contribute)
Go to Admin Contribute Site.
When password prompt comes up- DON'T TYPE ANYTHING. Just hit enter.
-- because your password is actually null, empty, nothing....
You are in.

6)Now- click on 'Sitewide Settings' and go to "change password"
Create a new password to change it from the blank one...
This process will preserve the users and groups settings.