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ASP.NET - Admin Force Password Reset

I currently have a functional website with user password reset in case they forget their password. In addition to that I want to be able to click a button on my admin panel and force a password reset for a site user and generate an email with the random generated password for them to login.

How would I go about that?

guru_sami

Does you site required user to have secret question/answer?
You can programatically, reset the password to something new using the technique shown in this article and then email the password. Here's the snippet:

string username = "user";
string password = "pass@word"; //you can generate this randomly
MembershipUser mu = Membership.Providers["SqlMembershipProviderOther"].GetUser(username);
mu.ChangePassword(mu.ResetPassword(), password);
//send email with the password above

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Shade22

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Yes. It runs off the .NET Membership in Visual Studios, so it requires the secret question and answer. I was trying to figure how I would send that secret question data, or bypass the questions and generate a new password and automatically send it to the registered email address.

guru_sami

The article in my previous comment shows how you can bypass the q&a and reset the password.

Shade22

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The article was almost there, but I am looking to reset the users password as an Admin and have it generate an email to the user so that they can log in with their generated temporary password and change it.

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