Recently had this error message when restarting AwareIM "Your password has expired. To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords"
Background - we had moved to a new server a year or so ago. The MySql version on the new server had a default password setting as mentioned in this article that we used to resolve our problem.
The fix in the article below was very easy, but finding the right article was not:
https://www.ryadel.com/en/mysql-user-pa ... ently-fix/
MySql error message
MySql error message
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