Building and Running an ASP.NET Web Client Application › Support for Encryption › Edit Encrypted Sections of Configuration Files › Edit the Encrypted connectionStrings Section in web.config

Edit the Encrypted connectionStrings Section in web.config

The user can edit the encrypted connectionStrings sections in web.config if the user has administrative privileges.

Follow these steps:

1. Decrypt the connectionStrings section by entering one of the following command:

   aspnet_regiis -pdf connectionStrings c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myapp
   aspnet_regiis -pd connectionStrings -app /myapp
   

2. Edit the web.config file and make the required changes.
3. Re-encrypt the connectionStrings section by entering one of the following commands:

   aspnet_regiis -pef connectionStrings c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myapp
   aspnet_regiis -pe connectionStrings -app /myapp