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3/30/2012 3:06 PM
 
Dan Vespa


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Can someone of the top of their head tell me what the default DNN password requirements are (i.e password length and complexity) and how can you easily change them?

 

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3/30/2012 8:46 PM
 
cathal connolly


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its defined in the web.config but the default is a minimum of 7 characters and no requirement for non-alphanumeric characters - the default is below:

<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" enablePasswordRetrieval="true" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" minRequiredPasswordLength="7" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" requiresUniqueEmail="false" passwordFormat="Encrypted" applicationName="DotNetNuke" description="Stores and retrieves membership data from the local Microsoft SQL Server database"/>

Note: you can also introduce the passwordstrengthregularexpression attribute and apply more complex rules - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/F...

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4/2/2012 2:18 PM
 
Dan Vespa


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Cathal,

Thanks for the info. This is quite frustrating but all I did was change the length of the min passowrd from 7 to 6 in the web.config file and it will not take. I have cleared the cache, restarted the application and for good measure restarted the www service on my windows 2008 server and it it will only take a min of 7 characters!! Would you know what is going on??

 

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4/3/2012 5:30 AM
 
cathal connolly


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I've never tried to reduce it to less than 7 characters, but I dont see anything in the documentation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.membership.minrequiredpasswordlength.aspx) which suggests that it shouldnt work - however as we are simply passing the value to the Microsoft sql membership provider it may be that it has code which does not allow shorter passwords. I googled and can't find anyone complaining about such a hidden setting
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4/3/2012 1:08 PM
 
Dan Vespa


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I figured it out. It turns out that I was editing the wrong part of the web.config file. I didn't realized the part above what you should is a descriprtion of the variables and not the actual variables themselves. all is goos now. Thanks for all your help!



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