INFO: NERR_PasswordTooShort Error Returned for Other Errors

ID: Q131226

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1
LAN Manager 2.1 Programmer's Toolkit

SUMMARY

When the NetUserPasswordSet LanMan API is called from a downlevel client to change a password on a Windows NT server, the error NERR_PasswordTooShort might be returned for error conditions other than the password being too short.

MORE INFORMATION

On Windows NT and Windows 95, the error ERROR_PASSWORD_RESTRICTION (1325) is returned if a new password is too short, a password is blank when a password is required, a password does not meet the complexity criterion, a password is longer than 14 characters, or a password is being reused without meeting password history requirements. For downlevel systems, Windows NT must map the ERROR_PASSWORD_RESTRICTION error code to one of the existing LAN Manager error codes. Because there is no comparable LAN Manager error, on Windows NT 3.1, ERROR_PASSWORD_RESTRICTION was mapped to ERROR_UNEXP_NET_ERR (59). On Windows NT 3.5 and later, ERROR_PASSWORD_RESTRICTION is mapped to NERR_PasswordTooShort (2245).

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbnetwork kbAPI kbSDKPlatform kbLanMan kbWinOS311 kbWinOS300 kbGrpNet
Version : WINDOWS:3.1; :
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo