Thanks to Bob Cihla, I dis­cov­ered there really was a pass­word prob­lem here on the site. It is now fixed!

Since I’m always logged in to the admin area, I didn’t see the prob­lem. It had to do with extra secu­rity we had in place because of cer­tain inter­net attacks this spring. Nobody should see any­thing else requir­ing a pass­word. (Unless you’re try­ing to log in as the site administrator!)