Unable to change password due to the following error: 1909

From: Sam (info@phad.co.uk)
Date: 01/29/03 

From: "Sam" <info@phad.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:33:23 -0800

Hi,

Check the Security Policy for user accounts in your
domain. You may have the option "Passwords must meet
complexity requirements" enabled. Under normal
circumstances this option disallows the creation of
passwords which match the username, however if you've used
some sort of batch creation of users the call to the Dll
which checks passwords may somehow have been bypassed. If
the policy is in-place, you may find that the change
password utility is not happy with the fact that the
original password is the same as the username and errors
out because of this...

Just an idea...

Cheers,
Sam.
 

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello-
>
>I work in the Netowrk department of a fairly large
technical college
>system in Wisconsin. With the start of the new semester
we have a lot of
>new students logging for the first time.
>
>Normally, a student is assigned their username for access
to the campus
>as well as an initial password that matches that
username. Upon
>initially login, the user is required to change their
password to
>something other than the deafault.
>
>However, students have been reporting that after they
initially login,
>not message pops up and they are immediately logged in.
When an attempt
>is made by the student to change his or her password,
using the "Change
>Password..." option after login, they recieve the
following error message:
>
>Unable to change password due to the following error:
1909
>
>Documentation on this message appears to be nearly non-
existant on the
>web as well as on Microsoft's Knowledge Base.
>
>If anyone else has encountered this issue and is aware of
a remedy for
>this it would be greatly appreciated. At this time, we
are forced to
>manually enter the student's desired password via AD and
setting the
>"User Must Change Password" option appears to be not
functioning as it
>should.
>
>Any assistance or insight anyone can provide would be
greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>-Daniel Noah
>__________________________________________________________
_
>Daniel J. Noah
>Network Technician
>Mid-State Technical College
>1(715)422-5519
>dnoah@mstc.edu
>
>.
>

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