Creating user and saving password in clear text.
Hi, I'm creating users programatically but I'm encountering a problem. What I would like to do is send a user password back when they provide username and email. I want to send the password back as clear text as this is not a high security system and this is allowable.
I've read this on msdn
<membership defaultProvider="SqlProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="20" hashAlgorithmType="SHA1"> <providers> <add name="SqlProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="SqlServices" enablePasswordRetrieval="true" enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" passwordFormat="Clear" applicationName="MyApplication" /> </providers></membership>Where I can change the password format in the membership when creating a user. However, after supplying the applicationName and connectionstringName relevant to my app, it seems that the password is always stored in an encrypted/hashed format. This membership block is placed in my <system.web> section in my web.config file. The way I know it is not being recognized is in my password recovery page when I query a user:
MembershipUser user = Membership.GetUser(userName, false);try string password = u.GetPassword(); catch (Exception e) And call the GetPassword method, I always get an exception, "Password Retrieval Not Enabled". I'm not sure what I'm missing or doing wrong. Would appreciate any help.