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Declan Ward
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9/2/2019 9:51 AM

I have an instance of a customer site running on my dev machine, Windows 10 with IIS 10. The site is using Encrypted passwords. (Yes, I know this needs to change!)

I am attempting to run a copy of this site on Windows Server 2008 R2. When I try accessing the site I get a 500 Server Error. The Event Log shows:

Unsecured Passwords Format Detected. The Membership Provider that contains the unsecure passwords format is: AspNetSqlMembershipProvider. The obsoleted password format is: Encrypted.

My question is; why will the site run on my development machine, Windows 10, and not on Windows server 2008 and can I get it to run?

Declan

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9/2/2019 9:58 AM
are you running a different version of .Net framework?
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9/2/2019 10:32 AM

Sebastian,

Both machines show:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full\1033

In there the Versions are:-

Windows 10 machine - 4.8.03752
Windows Server 2008 - 4.7.03062

 

Update in progress ;)

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9/2/2019 10:57 AM

Sebastian,

I have updated the framework on the server to:- 4.8.03761

Unfortunately this did not fix the problem :(

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9/2/2019 12:02 PM
Although not solved yet, the problem seems to be connectivity to the SQL server across the network.
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9/2/2019 12:33 PM
In this case, the error in eventlog is not connected to the issue - if DNN cannot connect to the database, it cannot write into the eventlog table - looking into /portals/default/logs might help
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9/3/2019 7:44 PM
Hi, if a DNN site is running Encrypted, can you change it to something hashed, or something else? If so, does it re-hash the passwords, or once a site is set, it's set forever?
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9/3/2019 7:48 PM
web.config setting for password format is used for all subsequent passwords being stored.
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9/3/2019 8:00 PM

Thanks Sebastian, just to be clear, does that mean the existing encrypted passwords will remain encrypted, and new registrations are hashed.

Does DNN check both styles when a user is trying to logon, so that regardless of how their password is stored, it will decrypt/hash-check and let them in OK?

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9/3/2019 8:35 PM
yes
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