SqlMembershipProvider.UnlockUser(String) Method

Definition

Clears the user's locked-out status so that the membership user can be validated.

public:
 override bool UnlockUser(System::String ^ username);
public override bool UnlockUser (string username);
override this.UnlockUser : string -> bool
Public Overrides Function UnlockUser (username As String) As Boolean

Parameters

username
String

The name of the membership user to clear the locked-out status for.

Returns

true if the membership user was successfully unlocked; otherwise, false. A value of false is also returned if the user does not exist in the database.

Exceptions

username is an empty string, is longer than 256 characters, or contains a comma.

username is null.

Remarks

Users are most commonly locked out and cannot be validated by the ValidateUser method when the MaxInvalidPasswordAttempts is exceeded within the PasswordAttemptWindow.

Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed from the username parameter value.

Applies to

See also