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error: The password could not be set.

When I create a user as an OD administrator, the new user cannot reset passwords for typical users.
If the new administrator attempts to do so, they receive the following message: "The password could not be set. An unexpected error of type -14120 occurred. All other settings were saved."
Other administrators which were previously created are able to reset passwords, and the new administrators have identical priveleges and group memberships.
Initially, I thought the database may be corrupt, but I observed that the new administrators can use Workgroup Manager to reset their own password.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

Xserve Quad Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 30, 2009 10:27 AM

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Feb 3, 2009 1:04 PM in response to tgar

I found that the administrators with the problems would be plagued with the inability to reset passwords if they belonged to any group except OD Administrators and Administrators. So I don't consider the problem resolved. Also, I found the following thread which suggests that this issue is symptomatic of a much larger OS problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1205369&tstart=0

error: The password could not be set.

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