The default Identity provider provided in ASP.NET 5 has very strict password rules by default, requiring a lower case character, an upper case character, a non-alphanumeric character, and a number. I am looking for a way to change the password requirements for the provider.
Previously in ASP.NET 4, the provider could be configured via the Web.config XML file, as previously answered. However ASP.NET 5 uses the new code based configuration pattern and it is unclear how to configure the identity.
How can I change the password requirements for my application?
I actually ended up figuring this out, it turns out you need to supply AddDefaultIdentity with a suitable lambda expression that configures the IdentityOptions it provides. This is done inside the ConfigureServices method within the Startup class, like so:
public class Startup {
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
// Add Identity services to the services container.
services.AddDefaultIdentity<ApplicationIdentityDbContext, ApplicationUser, IdentityRole>(Configuration,
o => {
o.Password.RequireDigit = false;
o.Password.RequireLowercase = false;
o.Password.RequireUppercase = false;
o.Password.RequireNonLetterOrDigit = false;
o.Password.RequiredLength = 7;
});
}
}
Update 2:
The above was true in the beta1 versions of the framework, in the latest rc1 beta5 it has changed slightly to:
services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, IdentityRole>(o => {
// configure identity options
o.Password.RequireDigit = false;
o.Password.RequireLowercase = false;
o.Password.RequireUppercase = false;
o.Password.RequireNonAlphanumeric = false;
o.Password.RequiredLength = 6;
})
.AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationIdentityDbContext>()
.AddDefaultTokenProviders();
If you have set up a new Web project with Individual User Accounts
go to:
App_Start -> IdentityConfig.cs
There you can edit the following defaults:
manager.PasswordValidator = new PasswordValidator
{
RequiredLength = 6,
RequireNonLetterOrDigit = true,
RequireDigit = true,
RequireLowercase = true,
RequireUppercase = true,
};
in startup.cs:
services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, IdentityRole>(x =>
{
x.Password.RequiredLength = 6;
x.Password.RequireUppercase = false;
x.Password.RequireLowercase = false;
x.Password.RequireNonAlphanumeric = false;
}).AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>().AddDefaultTokenProviders();
What I wanted to do was to customize the password rule so that it should contain characters from at least 2 of the following groups: lower case, upper case, digits and special symbols.
This is not something that I could do by just changing PasswordValidator options:
manager.PasswordValidator = new PasswordValidator
{
RequiredLength = 6,
RequireNonLetterOrDigit = false,
RequireDigit = false,
RequireLowercase = false,
RequireUppercase = false,
};
So instead I created a custom validator by extending IIdentityValidator...
First, create a new file CustomPasswordValidator.cs in your Extensions folder:
public class CustomPasswordValidator : IIdentityValidator<string>
{
public int RequiredLength { get; set; }
public CustomPasswordValidator(int length) {
RequiredLength = length;
}
/*
* logic to validate password: I am using regex to count how many
* types of characters exists in the password
*/
public Task<IdentityResult> ValidateAsync(string password) {
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(password) || password.Length < RequiredLength)
{
return Task.FromResult(IdentityResult.Failed(
String.Format("Password should be at least {0} characters", RequiredLength)));
}
int counter = 0;
List<string> patterns = new List<string>();
patterns.Add(@"[a-z]"); // lowercase
patterns.Add(@"[A-Z]"); // uppercase
patterns.Add(@"[0-9]"); // digits
// don't forget to include white space in special symbols
patterns.Add(@"[!@#$%^&*\(\)_\+\-\={}<>,\.\|""'~`:;\\?\/\[\] ]"); // special symbols
// count type of different chars in password
foreach (string p in patterns)
{
if (Regex.IsMatch(password, p))
{
counter++;
}
}
if (counter < 2)
{
return Task.FromResult(IdentityResult.Failed(
"Please use characters from at least two of these groups: lowercase, uppercase, digits, special symbols"));
}
return Task.FromResult(IdentityResult.Success);
}
}
Then go to IdentityConfig.cs, and initialize it in Create method:
manager.PasswordValidator = new CustomPasswordValidator(6 /*min length*/);
/*
// You don't need this anymore
manager.PasswordValidator = new PasswordValidator
{
RequiredLength = 6,
RequireNonLetterOrDigit = true,
RequireDigit = true,
RequireLowercase = true,
RequireUppercase = true,
};
*/