It seems like there's issue when you have a user for accessing authentication table you login with the same user.
It fails when due to mixing same pool for auth and for work. I'll look into differentiating these pools more closely.
As a simple workaround you can setup different user for accessing password and not login into Odyssey with this user.
Thanks for following up. auth_query_user is not the same as the user I'm attempting to authenticate with, though. And I get the same behavior with other users, including non-existing ones.