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submitted 1 year ago by 8tpercent to c/technology
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[–] MajorHavoc 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen this but with a final message of "Sorry, that password is already in use by user [email protected]."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Login to their account
  2. Change their password to something else
  3. Set your password
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what if the password you want to set is already in use?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Refer to my above comment until that is no longer the case.