WAT Does Not Recognize minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters Attrib

20 Jan 2006 9:15 PM

EagleRed@HighFlyingBirds.com

I am using a custom provider for an ASP.NET 2.0 application using SQL Server
2005 store. I need to allow passwords that do not contain non-alphanumeric
characters. I am try to set the minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacteres to
zero. I have set up a provider in the web.config file and when I try to
create a user in WAT I get a message that the
minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters attribute is not recognized. Also, when
I try to enter a password that includes such a character, like an underscore,
it is not accepted.

How can I resolve these problems? My users will not want to deal with
non-alphanumeric characters in passwords.

22 Jan 2006 12:16 AM

EagleRed@HighFlyingBirds.com

I found the initial problem and it is REAL SUBTLE. In the web.config file I
used the attribute, minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters, and it did not
accept it. However, when I used minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters it did.
When the file is processed EVERYTHING is case sensitive. The uppercase "A"
following the substring "Non" is significant.

However, I still cannot create a user. There is still a password issue. I
get an error message:

Password length minimum: 6. Non-alphanumeric characters required: 0.

The candidate password has seven alphanumeric characters.

Any ideas?

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"Eagle***@HighFlyingBirds.com" wrote:

> I am using a custom provider for an ASP.NET 2.0 application using SQL Server
> 2005 store. I need to allow passwords that do not contain non-alphanumeric
> characters. I am try to set the minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacteres to
> zero. I have set up a provider in the web.config file and when I try to
> create a user in WAT I get a message that the
> minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters attribute is not recognized. Also, when
> I try to enter a password that includes such a character, like an underscore,
> it is not accepted.
>
> How can I resolve these problems? My users will not want to deal with
> non-alphanumeric characters in passwords.