Clears a lock so that a membership user can be validated.
Syntax
Parameters
- userName
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Returns
true if the membership user was successfully unlocked; otherwise, false. The ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.UnlockUser(string) method also returns false when the membership user is not found in the data store.
Remarks
Users are most commonly locked out and cannot be validated by the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.ValidateUser(string, string) method when the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.MaxInvalidPasswordAttempts property is exceeded within the time specified in the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.PasswordAttemptWindow property or when too many attempts have been made to log on using the wrong password.
If the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.EnablePasswordReset property is true, when a user is unlocked the counters for bad passwords are reset.
The provider uses a subtree search starting at the search point specified in the connection string. See the System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider class topic for more information about connection strings.
Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed from the username parameter value.
Requirements
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Assembly Versions: 2.0.0.0
Since: .NET 2.0