sending unique links for password resets

[PJ6]

Many websites email users unique links when they need to reset their
passwords, links which are valid for only a limited amount of time. While I
can implement this from scratch... the practice seems pretty standard. Is
there something MS has out there that already supports this directly? Or
maybe source/db that's accepted as standard?

Paul

 

[Gregory A. Beamer]

Many websites email users unique links when they need to reset their
passwords, links which are valid for only a limited amount of time.
While I can implement this from scratch... the practice seems pretty
standard. Is there something MS has out there that already supports
this directly? Or maybe source/db that's accepted as standard?

There is nothing built into the framework to do this. If you are using
ASP.NET Membership, you can send the user GUID, but it is good for more
than a short amount of time.

I would look at open source and see if anyone has published one of
these.

Peace and Grace,