"Passcode Wrong" Error

Meeting SDK Web
1

Description
Recently, without us making any changes, all our users faced a “passcode wrong” error message when joining a meeting. I suspected maybe the version we were using (1.9.8) was deprecated so I updated to 2.0.1 but the error is still displaying whenever someone tries to join a meeting in-browser.

Browser Console Error
No new console errors are logged beyond things like the browser looking for .map files for the CSS and JS files.

Which Web Meeting SDK version?
1.9.8 and 2.0.1

Meeting SDK Code Snippets

ZoomMtg.setZoomJSLib('https://source.zoom.us/[ZoomVersion]/lib', '/av');

const meetConfig = {
	apiKey: '[REMOVED]',
	meetingNumber: '[REMOVED]',
	leaveUrl: '[REMOVED]',
	userName: '[REMOVED]',
	userEmail: '[REMOVED]',
	role: 0
};

ZoomMtg.preLoadWasm();
ZoomMtg.prepareWebSDK();

ZoomMtg.i18n.load('en-US');
ZoomMtg.i18n.reload('en-US');

function getSignature(meetConfig) {
	fetch('[REMOVED]', {
			method: 'POST',
			body: JSON.stringify({ meetingData: meetConfig })
		})
		.then(result => result.text())
		.then(response => {
			ZoomMtg.init({
				leaveUrl: meetConfig.leaveUrl,
				isSupportAV: true,
				success: function() {
					ZoomMtg.join({
						signature: response,
						apiKey: meetConfig.apiKey,
						meetingNumber: meetConfig.meetingNumber,
						userName: meetConfig.userName,
                        passWord: '',
						userEmail: meetConfig.userEmail, 
						error(res) { 
							console.log(res) 
						}
					})		
				}
			})
	})
}
    getSignature(meetConfig);

To Reproduce(If applicable)
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Attempt to join a meeting
  2. The error “Passcode Wrong” is shown with a password box.

Screenshots

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Device (please complete the following information):

  • Device: Any
  • OS: Any
  • Browser: Any

Additional context
We have been using this without issue for over a year, this issue suddenly started happening without us changing the code.

2

Can anyone help with this? It’s causing problems for a large number of our clients.

3

Hey @richard.moran ,

I know this is a silly question, but have you checked the meeting passcode? Perhaps it changed.

Does your meeting require a passccode?

I am not able to reproduce this issue.

Thanks,
Tommy

4

We don’t create meetings with passcodes, we just use the waiting room, so seeing this message is very surprising.

5

Can anyone help? This has been broken for over a week now and I can’t seem to fix it.

6

Any help here would be amazing. If we can’t fix it, we’ll be forced to remove functionality for our clients, which is far from ideal.

7

Hey @richard.moran,

My apologies for the delay. First, as a test, are you seeing this with the Sample Web App? If not, you may be able to use that app as a reference.

If you’re seeing the same issue with the sample app, I’m thinking this is related to the meeting settings. If so, please submit a ticket through our Developer Support Center and include a link to this thread as well as the Meeting ID where you’re seeing this issue.

From there, I’ll work to reproduce the issue.

Thanks,
Max

8

Thanks @MaxM for your help. This has inexplicably started working again. We haven’t changed anything, but it seems fine once more. Were they any issues with Zoom services in the last week or so?

9

Hey @richard.moran,

Thank you for the update here. I’m not aware of any changes to the backend or the SDK recently but I’m glad to hear it seems to be working now!

If you encounter this going forward, please reach out and we’ll investigate further.

Thanks,
Max

11

Hi Max,

Turns out this is still happening, but not consistently. It happens for meeting ID but not for. I can’t see what the difference is, can you?

Thanks,
Richard

12

Any news @MaxM or @tommy on why this happens for some meetings but not others?

13

@MaxM @tommy Anything you can do to help me here would be hugely appreciated.

14

@MaxM @tommy Can you help?

15

Hey @richard.moran ,

Can you clarify this? How are you getting the passcode? Is a user entering it in via an input, or are you getting the passcode it programmatically via the Get Meeting API?

Can you give us exact steps to reproduce the issue? We aren’t seeing this issue on our end when we test.

Thanks,
Tommy

16

I had included two meeting IDs in that post, but they seem to have been removed.

The meetings are created programmatically via https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/{userId}/meetings and they are always created without a passcode and with waiting_room set to true.

Both the meetings I mentioned would have been created with almost identical parameters, the only differences would have been the start_time, duration, topic and the user who created them.

So what I’m trying to figure out is why for some meetings users can join without passcodes and for other meetings they cannot. Is it something to do with the user who creates the meeting?

17

@richard.moran,

Perhaps is it something to do with the user who creates the meeting. Have you compared the security settings for that user ?

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You can refer to the API enhancements for meeting security requirements page to learn more details about how these settings can impact the response of your meeting creation and update requests in different scenarios.

https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/meetings-api-enhancements

Let me know if this helps.

Best,
Donte

18

Hi @donte.zoom, does this mean that if a user has “Meeting passcode” enabled in their settings, any meetings created via the API will require a meeting passcode, regardless of the settings sent across in the API request? If so, is it possible to override that somehow so only “waiting rooms” are required? It’s impossible for us to send the passcode to all the users who will be expected the join the meeting and it’s hard for us to tell all our clients to make sure they turn off a setting in their Zoom account, as it’s unlikely that they’d all do it.

Apologies if that was covered in the “API enhancements for meeting security” article, but I couldn’t quite be sure from reading that as there were so many cases and the middle column appeared identical for almost all of them.

19

Hi, @richard.moran,

Great question and thank you for the feedback. I will make sure it is shared with the appropriate team members. To that end, in some cases, the API is not designed exactly one-to-one with the Web portal settings. As mentioned, there is a matrix of outcomes that can occur depending upon account configurations (if settings are enabled/disabled/locked/unlocked). To get the desired meeting configuration via API request (and not send a passcode to meeting participants) be sure the appropriate security properties are configured in the API request. So for this scenario, if the password parameter is added to the request ( or default_password parameter) you should be able to successfully create a link with the passcode included, so users are able to click on it directly and access it without having to enter their password.

Create Meeting API :

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Let me know if this helps.

Best,
Donte

20

Start your meetings without a passcode, it’s better for you and your client, you can use the call request option, so you can check and add users in your meeting if you want to.

21

@donte.zoom So it sounds like in order to fix this problem I’ll need to set a password on each meeting I create via the API and then include that password in the ZoomMtg.join() function in the web portal, is that right?

If so, that’s quite a significant change for me and not something I’ll be able to implement and test quickly, so I’ll get back to you when I can. If there is any way I can create a meeting with waiting rooms only and no password, regardless of user/account settings, that would be ideal, so please let me know if that is possible.

@45track That’s exactly what I want to do, but apparently I can’t do that for everyone, only some users.