Microsoft KB Archive/202794

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FIX: NetUserChangePassword Returns Error 53 for Invalid User Name

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Q202794

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0

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SYMPTOMS
If the user name supplied in NetUserChangePassword is not valid, then the API returns error ERROR_BAD_NETPATH (53) instead of NERR_UserNotFound (2221) on Windows NT 4.0. The error is semantically incorrect.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Windows 2000.