membership reset password in asp.net

[rajnikantrana]

I am using membership control in my webapplication.

On reseting password, i want control should generate password such that i can define the length of the password.

Please help on this.

[Frinavale]

Um?
I'm not sure what you're having problems with.
Have you seen this article on the MembershipUser. GeneratePasswor d Method?

-Frinny

[planecrash]

Did you read the guys question? He wants to know how to specify the length of the password that MembershipUser. ResetPassword() generates. For example, when I use this method, the # of characters in the password generated is 14. I, however, am aiming to keep this length to a single digit integer, for reasons I won't get into.

Click on the link to the MSDN article you provided. Once there, press "Ctrl + F" and start typing "leng" and you will notice that word doesn't appear anywhere on the page.

I've often wondered, if you don't have a direct solution to somebody's question, why post anything at all?

[planecrash]

@rajnikantrana
The answer to the mans question, in C#, however, is this...

//Get the user in question
var u = Membership.GetUser(userName, false);
 
//Reset password to a temporary value
var tempPword = u.ResetPassword();
 
//Call the GeneratePassword method that accepts a parameter for length
var newPword = Membership.GeneratePassword(9, 0);
 
//Change the users password from the temp value to the new one
u.ChangePassword(tempPword, newPword);

[Frinavale]

I did read the OP's question and it still doesn't make any sense. There are several possible topics the OP could be having problems with and so I sent them to a generic helpful site on the topic with the hopes that they would post back here with more details and/or clarification on the problem they are facing.

If you want to know how to specify the length of the password that should be provided:

• Open the web.config file
• Go to the providers section under the membership section
• Set the minRequiredPass wordLength attribute to the length you desire
• If you wish you could also set the other attributes here...like the minRequiredNona lphanumericChar acters attribute.

Code example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
 <system.web>
  <membership>
   <providers>
    <clear/>
    <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
     type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" 
     connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" 
     requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" 
     requiresUniqueEmail="true" 
     passwordFormat="Hashed" 
     minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" 
     minRequiredPasswordLength="3"/>
   </providers>
  </membership>
 
  </system.web>
</configuration>

Happy coding,

-Frinny

[planecrash]

@Frinavale
Specifying a minimum password length, in the web.config, DOES NOT specify the length of the result from ResetPassword, it only specifies the result will be at least that length. For example, I have this value set to 6, in a current project, but ResetPassword returns a result of length 14. The OPs was very plainly asking, "how do I generate a password x characters in length". Your last reply just confuses the issue.