I need to create a tool to import users from an external source into the DNN system. I'm struggling to understand how to encrypt the passwords in the format that DNN expects (DES, right?).

Ideally this would be a web service that our external customer application can call. That said - I want it to exist outside of the DNN code base and perhaps even on a different server than the DNN installation.

So - how do I leverage the DNN password management code in my project? I'm including the DotNetNuke.DLL as a reference in my project, but that isn't enough. I realize that some settings (encryption keys and such) exist in the DNN web.config file. I was hoping I could include these settings manually in my code.

I'm using the following code, but it comes back with an encrypted value that doesn't match my PASSWORD entry in the ASPNET_MEMBERSHIP table in DNN.

//tried using both the validationkey and decryptionkey values from my DNN installation's web.config file here
string SiteKey = "abc123";

DotNetNuke.Security.PortalSecurity DNNPortalSec = new DotNetNuke.Security.PortalSecurity();

//I'm using the plaintext version of my DNN password as the 2nd parameter here
string thePassword = DNNPortalSec.Encrypt(SiteKey, "abc123");

return thePassword;

Is what I'm trying to do possible? What am I overlooking? Am I using the wrong key?

Thanks in advance for any insight you all might be able to offer,

Greg

have a look at iWeb (iweb.adefwebserver.com)

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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