Need to change the membership provider programmatically? 

string username = "user";

string password = "password";

MembershipUser membershipUser = Membership.Providers["SqlMembershipProviderOther"].GetUser(username);

membershipUser.ChangePassword(membershipUser.ResetPassword(), password);

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3 thoughts on “Changing Membership provider”

1. Bryan,

   Is there anyway possible to simply reset the user password without knowing what it currently is? As the administrator a user may forget their password(and security question). Both are encrypted so passing along the credentials to MembershipUser.ResetPassword or ChangePassword() may not be possible. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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2. Using the Microsoft membership provider, the only way would be to recreate a new user and remove the old one.

   What I have done before is extend the Membership provider to allow for this functionality.

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3. Thanks, I have noticed if you set requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" in your web.config it will let you reset it without knowing the answer to the security question. That seems to be the easiest solution, but lowers the security level a bit. Thanks for the reply!

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