401 on trying to set password

[dbkr]

I've seen quite a few reports of people getting 401ed when trying to set a password. I think this is when people try to set a password and it works but Riot doesn't realise it has worked, at which point it's stuck because trying again uses the old password.

[dbkr]

matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#1554 almost certainly fixes this, as the resulting page refresh will have been racing with setting the password, so a good number of time the request to set the password will have got sent and then the page refresh will go through before the response comes back (or before the js gets around to writing the flag to localstorage).

[mvz]

I'm still seeing this.

[t3chguy]

@mvz this will have most likely been fixed by matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#1982
The issue is it won't fix it for anyone that already has the issue.
What happened is that the password changed worked the first time but riot didn't realise so now keeps thinking it didn't. If you try "change password" in settings, providing the password you first changed it to and then a new password it should clear this up

[mvz]

Thanks @t3chguy, that indeed looks like my issue.

In the mean time, I managed to reset my password using the reset password function from inside the Fractal client.