Membership.MinRequiredPasswordLength Property

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: System.Web.Security

Assembly:: System.Web.dll

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Gets the minimum length required for a password.

public:
 static property int MinRequiredPasswordLength { int get(); };

public static int MinRequiredPasswordLength { get; }

static member MinRequiredPasswordLength : int

Public Shared ReadOnly Property MinRequiredPasswordLength As Integer

Property Value

Int32

The minimum length required for a password.

Examples

The following code example shows the membership configuration element in the system.web section of the application's Web.config file. It specifies that the application use an instance of the SqlMembershipProvider class to provide membership services, and sets the minRequiredPasswordLength attribute to seven characters.

<membership defaultProvider="SqlProvider"  
  userIsOnlineTimeWindow = "20>  
  <providers>  
    <add  
      name="SqlProvider"  
      type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"  
      connectionStringName="SqlServices"  
      requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"  
      minRequiredPasswordLength="7"  
      />  
  </providers>  
</membership>

Remarks

The MinRequiredPasswordLength property gets the minimum number of characters that must be entered to create a valid password for the membership provider specified in the Provider property.

The MinRequiredPasswordLength property value is set in the application configuration using the minRequiredPasswordLength attribute of the membership configuration element.

Applies to

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