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ASP.NET membership password expiration

Asked 2008-12-08T11:52:34.323
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I am using ASP.NET membership for the authentication of my web app. This worked great for me. I now have to implement password expiration.

If the password has expired the user should be redirected to ChangePassword screen and should not be allowed access to any other part of the application without changing the password.

There are many aspx pages. One solution could be to redirect to the ChangePassword screen OnInit of every aspx if the password has expired. Is there any other solutions or recommendations.

Thanks, Jai

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Just implemented this in about an hour, no need to modify your base page. Heres what you have to do:

  1. Respond to the LoggingIn event of the membership control

  2. Find the user in the membership database and get LastPasswordChangedDate

  3. Using a TimeSpan, compare this with the current date and decide if the password was last changed more than the requisite number of days ago. I get this value from web.config

  4. If expired, redirect to the ChangePassword screen

answered 2009-07-24T13:59:32.743

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