Topic on Manual talk:ChangePassword.php

Using ChangePassword.php produces this odd odd error:

PasswordError from line 62 of /var/www/eamon.wiki/public_html/mediawiki-1.30.0/maintenance/changePassword.php:
* The supplied credentials cannot be changed, as nothing would use them.
* The authentication data change was not handled. Maybe no provider was configured?

Backtrace:
#0 /var/www/eamon.wiki/public_html/mediawiki-1.30.0/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(92): ChangePassword->execute()
#1 /var/www/eamon.wiki/public_html/mediawiki-1.30.0/maintenance/changePassword.php(73): require_once(string)
#2 {main}

This occurred in 1.29.1, and is still occurring after an upgrade to 1.30.0. Does anyone know what might be happening? Huwmanbeing (talk) 13:44, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

We had this exact same error for select users and it was being caused by NewUserMessage extension. Disabling the extension resolved the problem.

Update: We re-enabled the extension and properly configured it to resolve the issue. The particular user who had the error was set as the editor on the MediaWiki:Newusermessage-editor page for this extension. Changing that to a different account solved the problem.