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Changing password dynamically

2/15/2009 6:25 AM

Majd Wadi

Joined: 1/26/2008

Posts: 60

Changing password dynamically

hello;

i'm trying to change the password for a user dynamically by calling UserController.ChangePassword.

i keep getting the error: "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: passwordAnswer" though password answer and question are already set

anyway, i noticed that it's a known issue, but i didn't really find a resolution!

note: i'm using DNN 4.9 ..

thx in advance.

2/15/2009 2:26 PM

cathal connolly

www.cathal.co.uk
Joined: 4/9/2003

Posts: 9676

Re: Changing password dynamically

take a look at \Website\admin\Users\Password.ascx.vb the cmdUpdate_Click sub will show you how to do it -you want to pass in a copy of the current user object, and just supply the old and new password to the changepassword method.

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2/16/2009 10:14 AM

Majd Wadi

Joined: 1/26/2008

Posts: 60

Re: Changing password dynamically

Thx Cathal,

i solved the problem partially by updating the passwords of the users directly via SQL update statements ...

anyway, the problem still exists, cuz when a regular user attemps to change his password, or me as an admin tries to change some user's password ..the same error occures ...

2/16/2009 12:43 PM

cathal connolly

www.cathal.co.uk
Joined: 4/9/2003

Posts: 9676

Re: Changing password dynamically

what setting are you using for requiresQuestionAndAnswer in the web.config, I seem to recall requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" had some issues (such as http://support.dotnetnuke.com/issue/ViewIssue.aspx?id=3747&PROJID=2 ), perhaps only the front end parts were resolved and the direct API call's weren't. Also what version of dnn are you running?

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3/3/2009 7:43 PM

Coder AF

Joined: 11/25/2003

Posts: 187

Re: Changing password dynamically

Can you please post the sql code that you used to change the password. I've been looking for such code ...

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