Ununlocking a locked account in membership asp.net

Question

I have forgot to change "maxInvalidPasswordAttempts" in my web config and it was on 5! Now one of my users get locked. I have change Islocked column to false but it is keeping unlock. Can any body help me how to unlock this user?

Answer 1

Use the UnlockUser() method in your code.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.membershipuser.unlockuser.aspx

Answer 2

You want to update in two columns in Membership table.

IsLockedOut to 0

FailedPasswordAttemptCount to 0