Unable to create user

Troubleshooting Command Line Interface
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Hey tomz,

you can skip the --config option, this is not meant to be the Mattermost server’s config.json, but a local configuration file for mmctl where you can store settings for it.

Can you share the output of:

# mmctl --local config get PasswordSettings
{
  "MinimumLength": 8,
  "Lowercase": false,
  "Number": false,
  "Uppercase": false,
  "Symbol": false
}

And compare the rules there with the password you tried to set? I can reproduce this error message only when I break the configured rules for the new password (in my example below, it’s too short).

With regards to the error message being in German: This happens when the LocalizationSettings.DefaultClientLocale is set to German. mmctl is also just a client and when it establishes a session, it inherits the locale setting:

# mmctl --local config get LocalizationSettings
{
  "DefaultServerLocale": "en",
  "DefaultClientLocale": "de",
  "AvailableLocales": ""
}

# mmctl --local user create --email asdf@asdf.com --username asdf --password asdf
Error: Unable to create user. Error: : Der Login schlug fehl, weil das Passwort ungültig ist., invalid password

A server restart is necessary after changing the DefaultClientLocale, JFYI.