topic changePassword error in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/changepassword-error/m-p/135965#M95380 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to change a user password via web services, so I was trying to use the method changePassword in the class AdministrationServiceSoapBindingStub.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I don't know the old password, so I fill the second parameter with null as I read in the documentation, but I get "Non nillable element 'message1' is null.".</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The main part of the source code is</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>AuthenticationUtils.startSession("admin", "admin");<BR />AdministrationServiceSoapBindingStub admin = WebServiceFactory.getAdministrationService();<BR />admin.changePassword(username, [b]null[/b], newpassword);<BR />AuthenticationUtils.endSession();<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>When I fill the second parameter with the right old password, it works.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:04:38 GMT grosisimo 2007-12-26T18:04:38Z changePassword error https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/changepassword-error/m-p/135965#M95380 HiI need to change a user password via web services, so I was trying to use the method changePassword in the class AdministrationServiceSoapBindingStub.I don't know the old password, so I fill the second parameter with null as I read in the documentation, but I get "Non nillable element 'message1' i Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:04:38 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/changepassword-error/m-p/135965#M95380 grosisimo 2007-12-26T18:04:38Z Re: changePassword error https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/changepassword-error/m-p/135966#M95381 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Solved</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The problem was I was using alfresco 2.1. Taking a look at the source code, i saw it didn't check whether the user was or not the admin. In alfresco 2.9 the source was different and it did check, so I installed an alfresco 2.9 night built and it worked.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Please, next time someone says "just set null as the old password", advice you are talking about alfresco 2.9.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks anyway</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:03:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/changepassword-error/m-p/135966#M95381 grosisimo 2007-12-27T18:03:23Z