Forms authentication - How to create first administrator type user in application

[Matt Adamson]

If we use forms authentication in our web application we need an initial
administrator account from which the first user can log on to create new
users and assign roles. How do others do this, use the member ship API to
create the first user as part of the installation process or use direct SQL

 

[Dominick Baier]

yes - use the membership API - this will handle all the hashing and salting
for you (this cannot be easily done by directly calling the sprocs)...