Hi All,

 I have a PasswordRecovery control on a page, but it is not working. Here is my web.config entry:

<membership defaultProvider="yyySqlMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="20">
        <providers>
          <clear/>
          <add name="yyySqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="yyyConnectionString" applicationName="yyy" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" requiresUniqueEmail="true" passwordFormat="Hashed"/>
        </providers>
      </membership>

The problem is that when I go to the page with the PasswordRecovery control, I NEVER see the question & answer dialog, I always see the "resend password" dialog where I have to enter my username. Since passwords are hashed this fails.

My PasswordRecovery control looks like this:

<asp:PasswordRecovery ID="recoverMain" runat="server" BackColor="#F7F6F3" BorderColor="#E6E2D8"
        BorderPadding="4" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="1px" Font-Names="Verdana"
        Font-Size="0.8em">
        <InstructionTextStyle Font-Italic="True" ForeColor="Black" />
        <SuccessTextStyle Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#5D7B9D" />
        <TextBoxStyle Font-Size="0.8em" />
        <TitleTextStyle BackColor="#5D7B9D" Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="0.9em" ForeColor="White" />
        <SubmitButtonStyle BackColor="#FFFBFF" BorderColor="#CCCCCC" BorderStyle="Solid"
            BorderWidth="1px" Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="0.8em" ForeColor="#284775" />
    </asp:PasswordRecovery>

I am using the standard SQL tables created via aspnet_regsql, and everything else works (login, change password, profile object, etc).

Thoughts?

:-)

Thanks!

 When you have hashed password,its not retrievable.

Refer this, http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/427.aspx. 

No, but you can still reset the password and get a new one.

Thanks, I know that, which is why I don't want to retrieve it.

 My question is, why is it not showing the question / answer block to have the system reset the password?

dmoreitz:

 My question is, why is it not showing the question / answer block to have the system reset the password?

Hi

You can set the requiresQuestionAndAnswer property to false.

     <membership>

       <providers>

         <remove name=“AspNetSqlMembershipProvider“/>

         <add name=“AspNetSqlMembershipProvider“

             type=“…“

             connectionStringName=“LocalSqlServer“

             enablePasswordRetrieval=“false“

             enablePasswordReset=“true“

             requiresQuestionAndAnswer=“false“