@ProTip we are hesitant to remove the exiting error message. Could you do something like I have below that still outputs when no password is supplied:

```ruby
if @new_resource.user
  cmd += "/RU \"#{@new_resource.user}\" "
  
  if @new_resource.password
    cmd += "/RP \"#{@new_resource.password}\" "
  else
    Chef::Log.debug "#{@new_resource} did not specify a password, creating task without a password"
  end
end
```

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