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[John Joseph Bachir <jjb AT ibiblio.org>]

here is our thinking:

-making an entire new blog is a Big Deal
-making an entire new blog is quite rare
-right now there is no way to delete an existing blog

so we figured an extra layer of process could go a long way in avoiding 
user error or malicious activity.


On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Alan Gibson wrote:

> thanks much for the help. indeed, i was trying to create a new
> password; i entered my existing password and it worked.
>
> out of curiosity, why was entering the password when one is already
> logged in deemed necessary?
>
> alan
>
> On 7/28/06, Jameson Lopp <fusion AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> > To clarify, I'm assuming that you are referring to creating extra blogs
> > for your username by logging in and proceeding to the registration page.
> > There is a bug in the AJAX validation code that results in it returning
> > 'invalid' for every blog name, but there should be no problem with the
> > actual blog creating functionality. Thus this leads me to assume that
> > you are entering the wrong password. Perhaps you thought it was asking
> > for you to create a password? It's actually asking for the password of
> > the user which you are currently logged in as. If you wish to manually
> > create new usernames and blogs for other people, you can do so by
> > logging in as 'admin' and going to the system settings panel. Hope this
> > helps.
> >
> > - Jameson
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