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| I have seen a server connect error caused by authentication issues as well. It's not a very descriptive error. | |
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We are setting up a bunch of copiers to use a common access card authenticate onto the network for scanning. This is a new device that Ricoh is just deploying and is not quite ready for prime time, thus the reason the Ricoh tech was in town.
I mentioned to him that some of the error messages displayed and possibly recorded by the copiers are not very descriptive. He said that was by design. In our discussion it became clear to me why the dang messages are so unhelpful at times.
The bottom line is this is for security purposes. If you make the error too descriptive, then unauthorized users can (for example) too easily figure out what part of a user name/ password combination is incorrect and thus narrow down his focus in his quest to crack a username password combo into a network.