What is the use of PasswordRecovery control in ASP.NET

PasswordRecovery Control: This control provides the user interface and corresponding functionality to help users retrieve or reset their passwords. The control has three views: User- name, Question, and Success. The Username view allows the user to enter the username for which a password has to be retrieved or reset. The Question view prompts the user for the answer to a question that was entered during registration. The Success view displays a success message after the password has been delivered via e-mail.

The options available for password retrieval are determined in part by the Membership provider used to provide membership services. ASP.NET 2.0 includes a provider for Microsoft SQL Server. This support password retrieval and security questions. Other providers, such as a third-party offerings or one you create yourself, might not support all those features. Also, the default the built-in providers to stores password hashes. (Clear text and encrypted text are the other options.) Password hashes cannot be used to determine the original password, so by default the only recovery scheme available is to reset the password and e-mail the new password to the user.