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Asked: 2026-05-25T16:51:22+00:00

I have 2 computers that I work on. I have a development computer and

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I have 2 computers that I work on. I have a development computer and I have have a production server at Rackspace cloud. When I backed up my membership database then restored it to the production server I can no longer login to the asp.net membership system. It is no longer recognizing my passwords for users.

I have reversable encryption on passwords.

Do I need to copy and paste the machine.config file from my development machine to production?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If the encryption is dependent on the machine.key you can override it in the web.config of your application by adding a machineKey entry – this will guarantee you are using the same value on both your dev machine and the production machine:

    <machineKey validationKey="yourkeyhere" decryptionKey="yourdecryptionkeyhere" validation="SHA1" decryption="AES"/>
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