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Re: New feature: Article rating
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Mon, 27 Mar 2000 20:12:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Ed Jones writes:
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> Perhaps if you required that members create a password that would:
> - Only be used for LUGNET
This could be a polite request to people, but as Mike Stanley pointed out
yesterday, there's technically no way to ensure it 100%. (Which doesn't
diminish its desirability, only its effectiveness somewhat.)
> - Not be stored in a cookie
How would you use your member account if your info wasn't stored in a cookie
when you signed in? (That's the sole purpose of signing in.)
> I would certainly have no problem with that. Cookies get deleted/corrupted
> anyway (for some reason I have to resubscribe to LUGNET about every 2 weeks
> because my cookie gets deleted/corrupted). I would much rather rely on my
> memory of my password that a cookie.
I see what you mean, I think, but the cookie isn't there to help you remember
your password -- it's there to store your password so that you don't have to
type it in each time on every single form or input that needs to authenticate
you (not many now, but in the future with more whiz-bang things like marking
sets as wanted or bidding in auctions, it could be hundreds a day for some
people.)
I do agree that you do need to be able to change your password to something
that is easier for you to remember.
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Thank you. And I do agree with you that there is value in making the password hard to crack. Value to the user and value to Lugnet. Now we're just down to figuring out how best to achieve both and what the priority is... ++Lar (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: New feature: Article rating
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| (...) What I meant was that if you stated that use of your LUGNET password (as descrived above) in any other online application would automatically relieve LUGNET of any responsibility of hacking to appications other than LUGNET. (...) How about the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) annoying (...) Good point. (...) I sign in from various workstations in various training rooms in 2 different buildings. (...) Until you added Article Rating, the only function a member could perform by logging in was to edit their profile (if (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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