Comments on: Changing Membership provider

By: trent

trent — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:17:52 +0000

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!

By: Bryan Avery

Bryan Avery — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:12:02 +0000

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.

By: trent

trent — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:10 +0000

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!