diff --git a/litellm/proxy/utils.py b/litellm/proxy/utils.py
index bcd6e30a020..42dfbf7e421 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/utils.py
@@ -7097,9 +7097,8 @@ def verify_password(password: str, stored: str) -> bool:
         if is_fips_mode():
             verbose_proxy_logger.error(
                 "LITELLM_FIPS_MODE is on and this account still has a scrypt password hash, "
-                "which is not a FIPS approved primitive. Reset the password "
-                "(POST /user/password/change, or an admin POST /user/update with a new password) "
-                "so it is stored as pbkdf2 and the account can sign in"
+                "which is not a FIPS approved primitive. An admin must set a new password with "
+                "POST /user/update so it is stored as pbkdf2 and the account can sign in again"
             )
             return False
         try:
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_password_hashing.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_password_hashing.py
index 97ef252eeb2..a02818546de 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_password_hashing.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/auth/test_password_hashing.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class TestVerifyPasswordFormats:
         with caplog.at_level(logging.ERROR, logger=verbose_proxy_logger.name):
             assert verify_password("legacy-scrypt-pass", stored) is False
         assert "scrypt" in caplog.text
-        assert "/user/password/change" in caplog.text
+        assert "/user/update" in caplog.text
 
     def test_sha256_fallback_verifies_in_both_modes(self, monkeypatch):
         stored = hashlib.sha256(b"oldpass").hexdigest()