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Password Change Requests Apply to All Authentication Schemes (66216)

Symptom:

When user accounts were set to "change password at next login", users were being prompted to change their passwords, even if the authentication scheme did not require a password.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

To revert to the previous behavior of processing password change requests, regardless of the authentication scheme type, enable the AlwaysProcessNonRelevantAuthRequest registry key.

To enable the key

1. Run regedit
2. Navigate to \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Netegrity\SiteMinder\CurrentVersion\PolicyServer
3. Create the AlwaysProcessNonRelevantAuthRequest key with the following settings:

   Type: DWORD

   Value: 1 or 0

   1

   Enables the key. When a user account is set to "change password at next login", the user will be prompted to change the password, regardless of the authentication scheme type.

   0

   Disables the key. When a user account is set to "change password at next login", the user will only be prompted to change the password if the authentication scheme uses passwords.

   Note: A value other than 1 or 0 disables the key.

Onyx Issue: 263569