Openfire won't let users with empty password

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On a machine running Windows 2k3s, I deployed Openfire 3.7.1, configured authorization in AD. Everything works great, except for one thing - users with empty passwords are not authorized. In group policies, no "crime" was noticed, empty passwords are allowed. Where to dig, it is not clear.

Answer 1

not many people have experienced this problem.
Once I have already encountered the fact that Windows does not want to log on to another computer over the network if the account is without a password. Since then, I have not looked for workarounds, I always set a non-empty password, and when they ask me for an empty one, I say that the OS will be terribly buggy in this case.