Sure. Hit "Config", select other user, and click on "Change password".

Stefan

Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Subject
Options Type = Routine{r}, Software Installation{s}, Problem Fixed{p}, Configuration, Other

{r} Required Attributes = Author

No. There is only "Preset on reply ..." and "Remove on reply...". You could for example require that attribute, preset it for new entries with some dummy value, and remove that value with "Remove on reply...". Maybe that works. 

$text is the full body text and can go over many lines. Since attributes are restricted to single lines, it's not possible to substitute them with the body text.

Stefan

While the input widget of text attributes is a single line, they can easily be multi-line in the display - when you use HTML at least.
And of course the user can parse the text field and generate a single line, if he wants to.
If you leave it to me, I'll create wonderful applications to that feature :-)

Please? ;-)

I am not Stefan, but maybe I can add to this issue.

Personally I think it is not a good way to dump all the information into the text field and try to let the server parse it.
This could be archived more simply by using e.g. the python elog scripts or using the elog command tool to directly submit well structured elog entires.

As you have mentioned you could use the "execute new|edit|delete" commands to do the things you want to do.
Let the called script fetch the elog entry and alter it in the way you like and resubmit the entry.
(You have to make sure to don't generate a endless loop and you have to proably have to use a forwarding script as the elog "execute" command waits for finished execution).
This way you don't touch the 1500 characters limit of passing $text to the execute command.

Also the point "filling an attribute X with free text" needs some kind of (extended) parsing, which isn't possible with the subst command.
In our elog we such an attribute X, which is in some conditions filled with a set of other attributes and on other conditions just a normal input field, so the user could type custom text in.

"fill an attribute automatically with the character length of the text" could be done with the above mentioned execute command or it could be done on the clientside (e.g. browser using javascript or if automatically generated by a script, then directly by the script)

I hope it helps to build our application.
Best wishes,
Sebastian