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Petr Kadlec wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 2008/11/5 Timwi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I get the following message:
>>
>>        Your password is invalid or too short. It must have at least 1
>>        character and be different from your username.
>>
>> If the password boxes are empty, the system should not assume that I was
>> trying to change my password.
> 
> If the password boxes are really empty, the system assumes that.
> However, if you use some password-remembering browser (such as
> Firefox), it "helpfully" pre-fills the "current password" box, leading
> to this. At least, that is what happened to me. Be sure to manually
> clear the "old password" editbox before changing other preferences,
> and everything should work fine.

We're still kind of assuming it's something like this problem. :)

The proper thing to do is to move the password reset form out of
preferences to its own form -- it really shouldn't be there anyway.

- -- brion
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