ASP.NET Identity change password

EDIT: I know the OP requested an answer which performs the task in one transaction but I think the code is useful to people.

All the answers use the PasswordHasher directly which isn't a good idea as you will lose some baked in functionality (validation etc).

An alternative (and I would assume the recommended approach) is to create a password reset token and then use that to change the password. Example:

var user = await UserManager.FindByIdAsync(id);

var token = await UserManager.GeneratePasswordResetTokenAsync(user);

var result = await UserManager.ResetPasswordAsync(user, token, "MyN3wP@ssw0rd");

This method worked for me:

public async Task<IHttpActionResult> changePassword(UsercredentialsModel usermodel)
{
  ApplicationUser user = await AppUserManager.FindByIdAsync(usermodel.Id);
  if (user == null)
  {
    return NotFound();
  }
  user.PasswordHash = AppUserManager.PasswordHasher.HashPassword(usermodel.Password);
  var result = await AppUserManager.UpdateAsync(user);
  if (!result.Succeeded)
  {
    //throw exception......
  }
  return Ok();
}

ApplicationUserManager is the class generated by the ASP.NET Template.

Which means, you can edit it and add any functionality it doesn't have yet. The UserManager class has a protected property named Store which stores a reference to the UserStore class (or any subclass of it, depending on how you configured your ASP.NET Identity or if you use custom user store implementations, i.e. if you use different database engine like MySQL).

public class AplicationUserManager : UserManager<....> 
{
    public async Task<IdentityResult> ChangePasswordAsync(TKey userId, string newPassword) 
    {
        var store = this.Store as IUserPasswordStore;
        if(store==null) 
        {
            var errors = new string[] 
            { 
                "Current UserStore doesn't implement IUserPasswordStore"
            };

            return Task.FromResult<IdentityResult>(new IdentityResult(errors) { Succeeded = false });
        }

        if(PasswordValidator != null)
        {
            var passwordResult = await PasswordValidator.ValidateAsync(password);
            if(!password.Result.Success)
                return passwordResult;
        }

        var newPasswordHash = this.PasswordHasher.HashPassword(newPassword);

        await store.SetPasswordHashAsync(userId, newPasswordHash);
        return Task.FromResult<IdentityResult>(IdentityResult.Success);
    }
}

The UserManager is nothing else than a wrapper to the underlying UserStore. Check out IUserPasswordStore interface documentation at MSDN on available Methods.

Edit: The PasswordHasher is also a public property of the UserManager class, see interface definition here.

Edit 2: Since some people naively believe, you can't do password validation this way, I've updated it. The PasswordValidator property is also a property of UserManager and its as simple as adding 2 lines of code to add password validation too (which wasn't an requirement of the original question though).

In .net core 3.0

var token = await UserManager.GeneratePasswordResetTokenAsync(user);
var result = await UserManager.ResetPasswordAsync(user, token, password);

This is just a refinement on the answer provided by @Tseng. (I had to tweak it to get it to work).

public class AppUserManager : UserManager<AppUser, int>
{
    .
    // standard methods...
    .

    public async Task<IdentityResult> ChangePasswordAsync(AppUser user, string newPassword)
    {
        if (user == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(user));

        var store = this.Store as IUserPasswordStore<AppUser, int>;
        if (store == null)
        {
            var errors = new string[] { "Current UserStore doesn't implement IUserPasswordStore" };
            return IdentityResult.Failed(errors);
        }

        var newPasswordHash = this.PasswordHasher.HashPassword(newPassword);
        await store.SetPasswordHashAsync(user, newPasswordHash);
        await store.UpdateAsync(user);
        return IdentityResult.Success;
    }
}

Note: this applies specifically to a modified setup that uses int as the primary keys for users and roles. I believe it would simply be a matter of removing the <AppUser, int> type args to get it to work with the default ASP.NET Identity setup.

ASP.NET Identity change password

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