Re: Question about ChangePassword control
- From: "Evgeny" <evgenykl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:55:34 +0200
Exactly. This is the problem.
"Otis Mukinfus" <phony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:06:28 +0200, "Evgeny" <evgenykl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >I use in ChangePassword web control. The control is connected with a
> >Membership provider that I also has defined.
> >Particularly, there is such property in the provider:
> >MinRequiredPasswordLength
> >
> >As far as I understood this property should control automatically length
of
> >of new password that was inputed by user in the control. But it didn't do
> >it. For example, I defined MinRequiredPasswordLength=3, but I succeed to
> >input and change password of any length. So what is expected behavior of
the
> >control? How should I use this property and others such as
> >maxInvalidPasswordAttempts and so on?
> >
> >Thank you
> >
> >Evgeny
> >
> >
>
> You will always be able to make passwords longer than what you have
> set as the minimum. Were you able to set the password to less than
> three characters?
>
> Comment: A minimum password length of 3 would not be advisable. It
> dramatically reduces the number of passwords possible (at that length)
> and reduces an attacker's count of trial and error possibilities for
> cracking your passwords (at that length).
>
> Otis Mukinfus
> http://www.otismukinfus.com
> http://www.tomchilders.com
.
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