What's wrong?
The images you have shown exhibit no problem

Look at the error message at the top of the second image I took - Minimum password length 5 characters. That is an error message, not a statement of a normal condition. Look at the other image, the first I took. 20 dots replacing typed characters. Dismissed as being less than 5 characters in the second image. The password has not been changed as ordered. It is still the same insecure password I managed to hack in when locked out earlier.

I'd respectfully suggest that reflects a software fault, Or given the chain of events, probably more than one. There most certainly is something wrong. This board software has presented the images in the opposite order to that which I uploaded them. The meaning, however, is clear.

I see two images

Look at the error message at the top of the second image I took - Minimum password length 5 characters. That is an error message, not a statement of a normal condition.

a) The first/top image has a statement, in pink, that can be construed as a warning it is not the result of an error.

b) I see no warning or error in the second image ???

Better to show the whole browser page including url so others can see where you are and how you got there etc.

There is no warning in the second image. As stated, I took them and uploaded them in the opposite order to that in which they are presented. I took the second image first. I uploaded the second image first. There is nothing wrong with the way the board presents them so long as the reader tries to understand the order they should be in. Which I have tried, in my native tongue, English, to explain a few times.Read the bottom one first then the top one second.

The second image as presented shows that I entered the existing password then entered the new, 20 character, password and repeated it. The top one shows an error message. It is not a statement. It is an assumption that the 20 characters entered in the bottom image amount to less than five characters. Is this understood now?

No password has been changed as the result of entering a change of password command.

Hi Ok so you posted images in reverse order than as presented by the your test :)

I have just created a new user with a 21 character password asdfghk1234567£$%^* with no problem.

I will check to see if I have altered the maximum values allowed.

I can add new users with up to 45 chars passwords. What I cannot do is to change the admin - the most important one to keep secure - the admin user only - password at all.

BTW I posted the screenshots in the order I took them. What the system does with them beyond that point is beyond my control.

BTW I posted the screenshots in the order I took them. What the system does with them beyond that point is beyond my control.

You have total control over placement of the images. Try the drop down option Inline

Use the text [image:10292] where ever you want the image above for example.

I will address the admin password issue in another post.

Changing the default admin data is not necessarily easy see post
https://forums.b2evolution.net/editing-demo-user-profile

PS the red note is not a b2evo error but indicates an invalid user input, a warning, etc but I am looking into why it occurred if as you indicate it happens even though you use a password of more than the 5 characters you have adopted as the maximum.

But if the issue cannot be replicated on my server or on any other user's you may want to look at your set up.

you can try ideas presented at https://b2evolution.net/man/disp-pwdchange which avoids evoadm.php

I see no problem.
Please give exact steps to reproduce.

Can you try
http://hereticus-economicus.info/?disp=pwdchange
?

That works too.

Sorry guys, too late, too many PHP glitches, too many hours trying to unravel spaghetti code. HTML in URLs? Wow!

Complete conflicts with the promo blurb. b2evo is a big and potentially great project. You've all got your noses to the grindstone. But somebody needs to take a step back and look at the resource side of things.

Of the three PHP driven CMSs I have running on this server b2evo is the only one giving me work overloads. That of itself should give you a very clear message.

I work on a voluntary basis for some very worthwhile non-profit organisations. Between them there are half a dozen web sites. Having retired several years ago, I really have very little need for even more unpaid, especially when unnecessary, overtime. Code which breaks is both unnecessary and causes overtime.

The web blog editor who told me this evening he is leaving if we stay here didn't force my hand. But I am grateful to him for helping me make the final decision.

I really wish you the best but this is goodbye from me.

Mike