changing own password in admin

[Guest]

Hi!

We're using 0.8.5 - users cannot change their password! When on the admin side, on "personal settings", we have a "your password" field but no "old password" field !!!

a user with administrative level 255 does get the field.

how to let normal users change their password themselves???

thanks for your help

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You are right, this is a oddity in the 0.8.5 release. You can bypass it easily by editing your include/tpl/config_personal.inc.php file.

Look at this line:

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                                          'permission'  => 'personalConfiguration'),

and change it to this:

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                                          'userlevel'   => USERLEVEL_EDITOR),

inside the array block for "check_password".

I am very sorry for the problem, it has gone unnoticed before. I will talk to the other developers and see if this rectifies a new 0.8.6 release or if we instead force development on our 0.9 version to get it out.

Best regards,
Garvin

[openadrien]

Hey Garvin

Thanks for your help. The fix works! However it seems that now, after changing passwords, one request later we are logged out (pass in session not updated I suppose) - no big deal though, i'm sure you'll fix that in 0.9 !

FYI we here at Wengo / OpenWengo use s9y for all our blogging needs! We have a public blog and now an internal one, too!

Keep up the good work!

[garvinhicking]

If you are logged out after changing the password, this means that your PHP session support does not seem to work properly - because the authentication via cookie stored password only takes place if no valid session could be found?!

Nice to know that you come from Wengo! I've heard of that site in the past and was very lucky to hear you like Serendipity! If you have any more issues or questions, please let me/us know!

Best regards,
Garvin