Whenever you try to login into Maximo, for whatever reasons if you are not able to login, Maximo throws the error \u2013 \u201cBMXAA7901E – You cannot log in at this time. Contact the system administrator\u201d. Whether it\u2019s wrong password or a blocked account or some administrative activity is going on, the same message is displayed every time.<\/p>\n

Out of curiosity I tried to find out why is it that the actual issue with the failed login is not shown and this is what I found – IBM says that \u201cAlerting a user that they have entered an invalid username or password is a violation of emerging security best practices. Giving a potential hacker any details on a system they are not authenticated against is a risk. These messages were generalized intentionally.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

So that means it\u2019s intentional. Though at times it could be frustrating to not know the reason why Maximo is not letting you in but the intention seems to be valid. I also found out that in the previous versions on Maximo, the actual error message was displayed if the login failed.<\/p>\n

So the question is, with all the VPNs and SSL enabled networks to protect us from hackers, is it really necessary to hide the reason of the unsuccessful login?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever you try to login into Maximo, for whatever reasons if you are not able to login, Maximo throws the error \u2013 \u201cBMXAA7901E – You cannot log in at this time. Contact the system administrator\u201d. Whether it\u2019s wrong password or a blocked account or some administrative activity is going on, the same message is displayed … Continue reading BMXAA7901E – You cannot log in at this time. Contact the system administrator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n