Enable Password History Management only works if PwdHistoryCheck is set in Options.Properties

Products

• CA Automic Applications Manager (AM)

Issue/Introduction

In 9.6.0, a new option, Enable Password History Management was introduced that specifies the number of recent passwords the system checks to prevent reuse, ensuring users create unique passwords instead of reusing old ones and should use a default of 5.  

However, if PwdHistoryCheck is not set in Options.Properties, then there's no response when the password is changed.

Steps to reproduce:

1) On a new system, make sure that PwdHistoryCheck is not set in Options.properties and start the system
2) Log into the GUI and Edit the Local agent
3) Go to the Automation Engine Options and Passwords tab and choose "Enable Password History Management"
4) Apply and log in with a user.  With that user, go to Options -> Change Password and update password

Expected behavior:
Pasword changes with no problems; if one of the last 5 passwords is input, then it throws the error that it can't be the same as previous 5 (default) passwords

Actual behavior:
The password does not change and no error is given - the change password screen just stays up

Environment

Release: 9.6.0

Resolution

This is a defect that is planned to be fixed with release 9.6.1.  Please check in on this article in the future to find more information.

Workaround:
Set PwdHistoryCheck in Options.Properties