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I tried last night, and again today, to change the admin password through the admin console. Nothing changes- the old password continues to work.

a new password has been sent to your gmail address.

Thank you. I take it that the password reset function in the console does not work, and that I cannot set it to a password of my choice.

You can reset your password but you need to follow the rules.

at least 6 characters long
Alpha upper and lower case
numbers
and special characters
NO blanks

Here are the rules copied from the reset section:

"Passwords must be at least 6 characters in length and contain both letters and numbers, and no non-alphanumeric characters."

It says nothing about upper and lower case. Lo and behold, I do add upper case and it works. (which is puzzling- keep reading as to why)

Just for fun, I decided to try again. It accepted a password with no upper case. It's possible last night and earlier today I made a mistake entering my password (without any upper case letters) four times - it's unusual for me to make those kinds of repeated errors, but I have done so in the past and may have again. Also, I didn't realize that I had to scroll down to see that the password box goes to red when there's a mistake (at least some mistakes-I've only seen the error for one).So because the the box scrolled up after I entered the password, I wouldn't have seen any error indication- everything looked ok, so I clicked save.And the password didn't change.

Regardless, I now have a new password entered, and I know that it doesn't require upper case.

Thank you for your help.