MSSQL user can’t connect until password change

Creating, or recreating, a SQL user account and I forgot to untick the “must change password” option. Damn.

If you try to disable the password policy options, you get a message saying “The CHECK_POLICY and CHECK_EXPIRATION options cannot be turned OFF when MUST_CHANGE is ON. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15128)”

Rather than recreate the account, you can disable the options using a script

Source: http://www.webofwood.com/2009/01/29/fix-a-sql-server-login-which-has-must_change-set-to-on/

USE Master
GO
ALTER LOGIN [username] WITH PASSWORD = 'samepassword'
GO
ALTER LOGIN [username] WITH
      CHECK_POLICY = OFF,
      CHECK_EXPIRATION = OFF;