diff --git a/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/archiva/redback/custom.properties b/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/archiva/redback/custom.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..134092cb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/archiva/redback/custom.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# text resources within redback can be customized by overriding them here
+
+#password.reset.success=An email has been sent.
+#password.reset.failure=No email was not sent, perhaps the user did not exist as entered.
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diff --git a/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/webwork.properties b/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/webwork.properties
index 453c1aaac..539c9f278 100644
--- a/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/webwork.properties
+++ b/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/src/main/resources/webwork.properties
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ webwork.url.includeParams = none
 # TODO: package up a theme and share with Continuum. Should contain everything from xhtml, and set templateDir to WEB-INF/themes
 
 # Localization
-webwork.custom.i18n.resources=org.codehaus.plexus.redback.xwork.default
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+webwork.custom.i18n.resources=org.codehaus.plexus.redback.xwork.default,org.apache.maven.archiva.redback.custom