Logging In as Admin and Changing Passwords

There are two user accounts that allow you to maintain your portal. They are the admin account and host account. This makes changing the default passwords for the

admin and host accounts one of the most important steps to take once you have your site up and running. The first page you see when you start up DotNetNuke gives you all the information you need to sign on.

First, we will log in as admin. For this, click on the Login icon in the upper right portion of the site. This will give you the Account Login screen. Enter admin for the username and dnnadmin as the password. When you do this, you will notice a few changes to the site.

There is now an admin tool pane, and most text has a pencil icon next to it. You will now be able to edit the site. All the options available to you as an admin or host user will be covered in Chapter 5; for now we only want to change the default password. In the upper right corner, just below where you clicked the login icon, you will see a link for Administrator Account. Click on this to bring up the account screen for the admin account.

To change the password, click on the Manage Password link.

Fill out the Current Password, the New Password, the Confirm New Password, and all the other sections that are required (marked with an *). When finished filling out the information, click on the Change Password link to save your changes.

When you are finished, log out of the admin account by clicking on the logout icon in the right-hand corner of the page. You can then change the host password by signing in as host, and following the same steps we followed to change the admin password.