RE: ResetPassword Requiring passwordAnswer

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That fixed it. Thanks ever so much.

"Steven Cheng [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi vpeppers,

Regarding on the your description, you found that the "ResetPassword"
(without RequireQuestionAndAnswer) not work as expected in your ASP.NET
application, correct?

I've performed a quick test via a simple ASP.NET application that use SQL
membership provider. When you set "requiresQuestionAndAnswer" to "false",
you should be able to call "ResetPassword" without giving the answer(of the
secure question). I think the problem should be caused by something else.

In the configuration section you provided, you use the following schema to
register your customized provider:

===========
<membership userIsOnlineTimeWindow="20">
<providers>
<add connectionStringName="UserInfoConnectionString"
enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true"
requiresUniqueEmail="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" passwordFormat="Hashed" applicationName="/"
name="SQLProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"/>
</providers>
</membership>
==========

However, I found that you haven't specify the "defaultProvider" as below.
This is required if you want the ASP.NET membership to use your new
custoimzed provider, otherwise, the runtime may still use the default
provider(set in the machine.config level):

<membership defaultProvider="NewAspNetSqlMembershipProvider">

you can even first clear all the old providers. e.g.

=============
<membership defaultProvider="NewAspNetSqlMembershipProvider">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="NewAspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web,
Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
connectionStringName="MYASPDBConnectionString"
enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
enablePasswordReset="true"
requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
applicationName="/"
requiresUniqueEmail="false"
passwordFormat="Hashed"
maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5"
minRequiredPasswordLength="7"
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="1"
passwordAttemptWindow="10"
passwordStrengthRegularExpression="" />
</providers>
</membership>
=================

Above is my test membership configure section which works as expected. You
can also try it to see whether it works.

Hope this helps you.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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From: =?Utf-8?B?VmVybm9uIFBlcHBlcnM=?= <vpeppers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ResetPassword Requiring passwordAnswer
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:23:02 -0700


I have a site that is using membership as provided with ASP.NET. I have a
page to reset the password, that is only available to the site
administrator.
I have RequireQuestionandAnswer set to false.

web.config entries
<connectionStrings>
<add name="UserInfoConnectionString" connectionString="Data
Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\ASPNETDB.MDF;Integrate
d
Security=True;User Instance=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
<add name="ASPNETDBConnectionString" connectionString="Data
Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\ASPNETDB.MDF;Integrate
d
Security=True;User Instance=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>

<membership userIsOnlineTimeWindow="20">
<providers>
<add connectionStringName="UserInfoConnectionString"
enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true"
requiresUniqueEmail="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" passwordFormat="Hashed" applicationName="/"
name="SQLProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"/>
</providers>
</membership>

VB Code
labelReset.Text = "Password for " & ddUsers.Text & vbCrLf & "has been
changed to " & User.ResetPassword()

Whenever I run the site, and try to reset a password, I get an error that
the passwordAnswer can't be null. How do I fix this?




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