This property indicates whether the membership provider is configured to allow users to retrieve their passwords.

Declaration

// C#
public override bool EnablePasswordRetrieval{get;}

Property Value

Returns true, if the membership provider is configured to support password retrieval; otherwise, returns false. The default is false.

Remarks

To customize a membership provider, ASP.NET developers can set a Boolean value for this property through the web.config file using the enablePasswordRetrieval attribute. The value indicates whether users can use the GetPassword method to retrieve their current password from the database. The attribute name in the configuration file is case-sensitive.

If the custom membership provider supports hashed passwords, then the GetPassword method returns an exception if the EnablePasswordRetrieval property is set to true and the password format is set to Hashed. In other words, hashed passwords cannot be retrieved.