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I like how ASP.NET provides inherent user account support, but it seems to make a lot of assumptions for me. For example, passwords are stored as hashed digests, the user's password must be seven characters long and include nonalphanumeric characters, and so on. I want to change some of these defaults. Is this possible?

Yes. The membership feature of ASP.NET is highly customizable through the website's web.config file. For more information, consult the "How To: Use Membership in ASP.NET 2.0" documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGHT000022.asp.