The confirm-password screen hid its field from every account that was
not Local, and told it to set a password instead. That is right for an
account a provider created, which has no password anybody has seen. It
is wrong for a directory account: its password is the directory's,
PasswordVerification accepts it, and /settings/password refuses to let
it set another. So an LDAP account could not get past the confirmation
at all, and everything behind it, turning on two-factor included, was
out of reach. The new dialog copied the same question.
Both now ask whether the account came from a provider, and the prop is
called has_password, which is what it means. The dialog also clears
the typed password when it closes or once it has been used, instead of
keeping it in component state.
Reported by Ricardo Cazati, who had to turn compulsory two-factor off to
get his colleagues working.
An account provisioned by a provider carries a generated password nobody
has ever seen. The password screen asked for the current one before it
would set a new one, so those accounts could never have a password of
their own — and enrolling in two-factor is behind a password
confirmation, so they could not enrol either. With
`TwoFactorEnforcement` set, the enforcement middleware sent them to
enrol, enrolling sent them to confirm a password they do not have, and
every other screen — including the one that would have given them one —
redirected back. No way in and no way out.
- The password screen asks for the current one only where there is one,
and says "Set a password" otherwise. Setting it moves the account to
`local`, the line NewPasswordController already writes when such an
account resets its password: the hash is now what signs it in, and the
settings screens read that off this column.
- An LDAP account is refused outright rather than handed a password that
signs nothing in — its password lives in the directory.
- The enforcement middleware lets the password screen through, the way it
already lets the confirm-password screen through, so the loop has an
exit.
- The confirm-password screen offers to set one instead of asking for a
password that does not exist.
ignacionelson