urgent help_error "You cannot proceed without changing your password. However there is no available page for changing it. Please contact your Moodle Administrator."

urgent help_error "You cannot proceed without changing your password. However there is no available page for changing it. Please contact your Moodle Administrator."

by m question -
Number of replies: 5

I use moodle 2.7, and external database authentication and enrolment

accounts for students and teachers created , however, when I try to login as teacher or students, I have follwoing error


You cannot proceed without changing your password, however there is no available page for changing it. Please contact your Moodle Administrator.

https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/error/auth/nopasswordchangeforced


I  search thread and found solution

UPDATE mdl_user_preferences SET value='1' WHERE name='auth_forcepasswordchange';

but I do not want to change it using sql , how to change the auth_forcepasswordchange using moodle interface

the password are all numbers & SA>security>site policy >password policy not enabled

what else should I do


thank you in advance

10 days before start the courses surprisesad

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In reply to m question

Re: urgent help_error "You cannot proceed without changing your password. However there is no available page for changing it. Please contact your Moodle Administrator."

by Howard Miller -
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It's in the user's profile screen. You might have quite a few to edit though. 

I don't know if this still applies, but you used to get this if the initial password was (iirc) 'changeme'. That caught out lots of people. 

In reply to Howard Miller

Re: urgent help_error "You cannot proceed without changing your password. However there is no available page for changing it. Please contact your Moodle Administrator."

by m question -

sorry the solution I found was

update mdl_user_preferences set value=0 where name = 'auth_forcepasswordchange';

in their profile force password change is not checked

In reply to m question

Re: urgent help_error "You cannot proceed without changing your password. However there is no available page for changing it. Please contact your Moodle Administrator."

by Howard Miller -
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That would be the solution you said you didn't want to use then?

Sigh! At least it's Friday cool

In reply to Howard Miller

Re: urgent help_error "You cannot proceed without changing your password. However there is no available page for changing it. Please contact your Moodle Administrator."

by m question -
now I want them to change the password
but when all users have this error

You cannot proceed without changing your password, however there is no available page for changing it. Please contact your Moodle Administrator.

https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/error/auth/nopasswordchangeforced

after login


what should I do, what link I should provide, any help appreciated