How to use Secret Answer in .NET with Membership.Provider

Question

I am using the Membership.Provider for security in my MVC Application. I have a forgot password page that asks for your username, and then gives you the secret question on file. My question is how to a check the secret answer against what is on file. I can't seem to find any method that does that besides

Membership.Provider.ResetPassword(userName, secretAnswer) 

which basically approves anything I type in.

Answer 1

There's a setting in the web.config you have to set to tell the Membership Provider to use the secret question.

It's requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" where you set up the membership provider.

Edit: In your comment requiresQuestionAndAnswer is set to "false" - it should be "true"

Answer 2

You have to use reset password, see example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.sqlmembershipprovider.resetpassword.aspx