I inherited a Web site managed by Macromedia Contribute and need to change the administrator password. How do I do this when I don’t know the current password?
I inherited a Web site managed by Macromedia Contribute and need to change the administrator password. How do I do this when I don’t know the current password?
Contribute stores the administrator credentials and other shared settings in a folder named _mm in the root folder of the Contribute Web site. Older versions of Contribute store the settings in the file contribute.xml, while newer versions store the settings in a file whose name begins with cthub followed by a set of random characters followed by the file extension .csi. Make a backup copy of the _mm folder before attempting to clear and reset the existing administrator password so that you can restore the original configuration if need be. If you delete the _mm folder, you can take control of the Contribute site, but this will remove all of Contribute’s shared settings, including user and group definitions. To retain the shared settings and change only the administrator password, you need to edit the shared settings file with a text editor.
A knowledgebase article explains how to do this in detail. Open the shared-settings file and change the entries for admin_password and admin_password_salt to
