Garvin, I'm not really up on diff files so I'll upload the altered 'users.inc.php' file.
There are actually three processes that are affected by password validation:
1) adding a new user,
2) admin editing an existing user, and
3) the user editing the personal settings.
For my application I've ...

The blog we're using right now.

I like the idea of private comments to administrator with replies - could be useful to report abuses and other things.

There is spell checking on this blog

I don't see the spell checker plugin on the "manage plugin' page.

I'm sorry to be confusing.
What I'm interested in doing is being able to post a blog comment to the administrator for his eyes only (private). That is, a comment that only the administrator can see.

Rich

I'll see if that helps but what I'm looking for is more basic than than - simply a way to privately leave a blog for the administrator .

There is some description in 'functions_entries.inc.php' about options for fetching entries in function &serendipity_fetchEntries. Could that be useful here. The ...

I think this question was asked several years ago.

I've integrated Serendipity into my own website. My website, which among others things, works like a 'private' blog between the user and admin. Independent of Serendipity my website displays the comments and admin reples only for the user loggedin ...

Ian, i've made some real progress on the integration. I've integrated the database user table from my website with the serendipity_authors table and can now log in to both applications with one login procedure.
I was not happy with the lack of password protection in Serendipity so I modified ...

Garvin, to keep you up to date:
I've added some validation conditions when the user makes changes to his Personal Settings by adding code to the 'personal.inc.php' file preventing the user from choosing passwords less than 8 characters and usernames and emails that already exist.

I noticed, however ...

Garvin, just what I was looking for, actually it led me to where the function is called which is what I needed: 'personal.inc.php'.

I've integrated Serendipity into my website so that the one login process gets the user loggedin to both mysite and Serendipity. To facilitate this, I've combined my ...

I noticed when an author is deleted the entry in table 'serendipity_authorgroups' was not deleted. To fix this I added the following line to the appropriate function 'functions_config.inc.php' file:

/**
* Delete an author account
*
* (Note, this function does not delete entries by an author ...

Garvin, I'm looking for the function that updates the database table with a changed password, it should look like:

'serendipity_db_query("UPDATE {$serendipity['dbPrefix']}authors'

This should be called when a user is logged in to his personal settings and sets a new password.

regards,

Rich

Garvin, I'm going through your code for integrating things into my website. Can you point me to the function used for changing passwords?
In searching for 'serendipity_db_query("UPDATE {$serendipity['dbPrefix']}authors' all I found was the function serendipity_authenticate_author which doesn't seem ...

Are there any restrictions or requirements on user passwords. For example, numbers, special characters, etc) or length?
I seem to have trouble using passwords like 'password2'.