Question After upgrad to OE 11.3 cannot change the password Error 711

philippoommen1 · Feb 12, 2015

Hi,

After we upgrade the OE from 10.2B to 11.3 we are geting an error for the below code

ASSIGN
_user._password = ENCODE(txtNewPassword).

Error stating that ** You can change only your own password.(711)

In 10.2B we can change the password even though we loged in with different userid.

What could be the reason ? Any workaroung ?

TIA
-Philip-

Cringer · Feb 12, 2015

Weirdly there is absolutely nothing in the KB for this error number!

Arelav · Feb 12, 2015

philippoommen1 said:
Hi,

After we upgrade the OE from 10.2B to 11.3 we are geting an error for the below code

ASSIGN
_user._password = ENCODE(txtNewPassword).

Error stating that ** You can change only your own password.(711)

In 10.2B we can change the password even though we loged in with different userid.

What could be the reason ? Any workaroung ?

TIA
-Philip-

I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong.
Always to change the password to another user, administrator had to recreate his record in _user table.
Just in case, I checked it again in OpenEdge 10.1B and OpenEdge 10.2B - message is the same.
It's very important in terms of security.

From offline version of ProKB:
** You can only change your own password. (711)
"You can only change the Password field in a _user record if you own that _user record. That is, if it is the record for the use ID you currently have. "

RealHeavyDude · Feb 12, 2015

I can only second that. Not in one single version of Progress/OpenEdge that I have used so far I've been able to change the password of a user except myself. Instead of changing the password I always needed to delete and re-create the _User record.

Are you sure that you are able to change the password of a different user?

Heavy Regards, RealHeavyDude.

klebaum · Mar 25, 2015

As a workaround I guess you can delete and recreate user.

Arelav · Apr 3, 2015

This solution provides example code for switching users, changing a password, then switching back to the original user.
This solution assumes that the connected user must be an administrator and that he has knowledge of, or access to, the user's original password.
http://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/P127152

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