I would like to update my password for the Halfbakery to a stronger one. There should be a way of doing this???? [marked-for-comment]
-- xenzag, Mar 01 2019

On my profile page, there's a box for "password" - if I change this, does it not change my password?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 01 2019


//if I change this, does it not change my password?// Yes, but [xenzag] doesn't want to change *your* password
-- hippo, Mar 01 2019


Ah yes, that would be so.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 01 2019


On your profile page there is a box for "password" but the only password you can enter there is the one you currently use, otherwise anyone could log in to your account, so the question remains: how do you change your password?
-- xenzag, Mar 01 2019


If I go to your profile page I don't see the 'password' box - only you see that.
-- hippo, Mar 01 2019


// On your profile page there is a box for "password" but the only password you can enter there is the one you currently //

Not IME. I changed my password using that box a few months ago, shortly after the site came back up and I saw it supported HTTPS now, meaning it was worth having a new password to avoid impersonation (even though I presume passwords are still stored unhashed, but I think I've never used the same password here as elsewhere so that's neither here nor there). I do recall a little bit of weirdness in how it operated, but I think that was just because of one or another of my 49* browser extensions.

*I counted just now; it may have been a different number back then.
-- notexactly, Mar 01 2019


Yes, I just changed my password using that password box.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 01 2019


What did you change it to?
-- hippo, Mar 01 2019


I changed it to "password".

Then I changed it back.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 01 2019


If I'm understanding this correctly, on my profile page, where the password box is with a row of asterix symbols, I can type in anything and that will be saved as my new password? I just don't want to get shut out by doing something stupid.
-- xenzag, Mar 01 2019


Oh, just send it to me, along with any credit cards numbers you have to hand.
-- not_morrison_rm, Mar 01 2019


// I can type in anything and that will be saved as my new password?// Worked for me.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 01 2019


Ok - thanks. That's clear enough.
-- xenzag, Mar 01 2019



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