I am working on a module that needs to force a password on an existing user to be a specific value.

I hae a UserInfo object with the users informaton however I cannot find out how to update the account.

I see a .Membership.Password property but setting it doesn't do anything.

I do not necessarily know the users last password.  Is there a way to set their new password to a specific value?

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You need something like this function in c#

        public bool ChangePassword(UserInfo user, String oldPassword, String newPassword, bool isAdmin)
        {
            if (user != null)
            {
                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(newPassword) && oldPassword != null)
                {
                    if ((UserController.ValidatePassword(newPassword)) &&
                           ((isAdmin && oldPassword == "") || oldPassword.Length > 0) &&
                           ((isAdmin && oldPassword == newPassword) || (oldPassword != newPassword)))
                    {
                        try
                        {
                            UserController.ChangePassword(user, oldPassword, newPassword);
                            return true;
                        }
                        catch (Exception ex)
                        {
                            //do something    
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        //do something
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    //do something
                }
            }
            else
            {
                //do something
            }
            return false;
        }

The result depends on the membership provider.
If you don't know the user password and you are admin, try String.Empty as oldPassword.

M.H.

Are you unable to get the current password for a user? I have code that does this in the IWeb module.

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