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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1zDMo.MIK@lugnet.com... (...) password, (...) I (...) have (...) confusion. (...) ID (...) three (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, wait, now I'm confused. I don't see you listed. What is your member ID number? Anyway, by primary email I meant the first one of the (up to) three that you gave when you signed up to be a member. But I think maybe you're confusing (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1EAr4.F49@lugnet.com... (...) stuff, (...) primary (...) send (...) one (...) Oh, hi Todd. I should have checked this NG before emailing you... Anyway, I emailed you about <thinking> 5 (?) (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm working on it as I type. Neat trick, eh? Whoops, gotta go. It just finished a process. Steve (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I found a big difference too. I have 4 or 5 passwords I use for my "non-critical" logins, and on the old system (lvl 2) they got a mixture of good & weak. On the new system they all get great on lvl 2 and good on lvl 3, so I agree, maybe lvl 3 (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Jeremy Sproat and a couple others were working on it a while back and made quite a bit of progress -- check the .faq group archives for old discussions -- but I think due to time considerations it has stagnated. One thing I'd like to see in a (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
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(...) Ah yes, thanks, (another loose-ends casualty of the news move of the summer -- they were using server-relative URLs)... Fixed now. Thanks again. --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No and Yes. No, the code/feature is the same -- it has always (since the new set guide went up a few weeks ago) displayed the "larger" (where available) image when you click the medium-size image. Yes, the 6990 image changed yesterday -- I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I've been thinking about this as well. And I will volunteer my time toward creating either the database or the traditional faq. As it is, I often search the newsgroups for past answers and it is often fruitless, even when the information I seek is (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
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This brings up a question of mine, which there might be an answer for but I am not clear on. Will there ever be a 'LUGNET FAQ' encompassing all of these?? Is there someone or some group of people working on assembling data for that? I'd certainly (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
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These links rec.toys.lego (RTL) FAQ and Auction & Shipping FAQ on this page (URL) to be dead. Scott A (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Now that the update is available, will the parts reference on lugnet updated as well? The web reference is a really nice feature ;-) Regards, Hakan (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Is this new? I'm pretty sure that when I looked at this the other day both the big and small images linked to the same file - the smaller one was only shrunk. I am also 100% sure that the 6990 image changed since yesterday. Scott A (...) etc.) (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hey, even a stopped clock is right 2 times a day (only once if you're in the military, there's a moral there somewhere...) Scott's right more often than you think, Shiri. I just usually think he could phrase stuff more smoothly, that's all. If (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ya, I'm not bothered by it either, and the medium-sized default images aren't necessarily always smaller (most of the time they are, but not always -- it depends on the size of the originating scan). A smaller initial image makes for much (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Certainly *way* easier to pass. I'd even suggest using level 3. Level 2 passes "c00l!" (just barely). Would it be possible to kick up the relative strength of the dictionary check a bit? (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Actually, Scott, clicking on this: (...) (URL) clicked on "open link in new window" to find out what the link was, BTW). Maybe Todd just found the time to fix it. ;-) (...) Seems like history was made - Scott and Larry aren't disagreeing, if not (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Not sure I'm "bothered" per se but I do agree that I find the images less satisfactory now than before, and the extra steps to get a large image are extra work. ++Lar (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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One of the big advantages Brickset has over the LUGNET set guide is the quality of the images. When I use either guide usually I just want a good look at the set to see what parts it contains etc. All the extra information now on the set guide (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Many people feel that the Member password checks on LUGNET are overly stringent -- that it is too hard to come up with a good password that passes the strength appraisal: (URL) is also comfortable to remember. In anticipation of lowering the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.people, lugnet.general)
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(...) d'Oh! -- you're right. I added some code deep-down for slowing and blocking HTTP accesses from IP addresses which appear to be attempting pw intrusions, and the code there checks the IP address and asserts that it's defined and of the standard (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, I have been trying to access the Traffic screen and I am a receiving a "webpage does not exist, yada, yada, yada" window from webtv... (and you know how annoying yada, yada, yadas are = ) John (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Working on it now. --Todd (26 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Cafepress.com is now offering shirts in these larger sizes! I was hoping to get a 2X Lugnet shirt, but noticed that we can still only buy the smaller sizes. Todd, when are you going to offer the larger sizes for Lugnet shirts? The Lugnet stores on (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I posted a message yesterday about a sale at Fred Meyer. I guess I named my posting the same as an earlier posting and it was sent to this previous heading as a response. Why did this happen. We use a news reader and when a message is posted to an (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1L15F.K94@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) client (...) if (...) to (...) been (...) reason. (...) follow (...) it (...) Why would it have been a mistake to protect them? IMHO, if anyone can fake a (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) True - I actually went to .fun first, but didn't think a joke fit into Community, Gaming, Party, Crafts, or Holiday, and didn't realize that I could post directly to .fun, because when I had tried to post directly to (IIRC) .marketplace, it (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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I noticed that I can go back and edit what I wrote in...so I have done that. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, enough new things that I think it will be hard for anyone to continue belittling the checking anymore. Plus, as I said before, it's possible (and likely, I hope) that the checking will be less stringent. Right now I'm guesstimating that (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I was thinking more from the perspective of what you are going to create that will have a span of 9 months and not what might happen on the internet outside of LUGNET in 9 months. This still doesn't explain why you have a sophisticated (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) that (...) Is this debate flamebait? Or sarcasm The FDIC needs to do risk based underwriting instead of charging all banks the same rates. Online banks with lax security should have to pay higher premiums. FUT .debate if you must (seems (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Easially? (...) Hey, we better enhance the tester to prevent that password, it's kind of sort of easy to remember. <GD&R> Seriously, I like the active anti cracker defense idea a lot better and I think that's the better way to solve the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Thread views (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) When you're viewing an article at the website (such as through one of the links as shown above), scroll down to the bottom of the page and click one of the "Entire Thread on One Page" links. You can see the thread in nested thread form or in (...) (26 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd - an interesting but minor question to these thread links - if I wanted the thread unraveled all the way back to it's source post, how would I do that? Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree! In a cookie, you can put complete random garbage that only the authentication server knows how to interpret. And if certain bits contain an index, you can even use a one-time pad or other complex mapping to encrypt the data so that (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What do you think about this?-- (URL) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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[Reposted with corrections. I read the results incorrectly; the basepoint for passing is 100%, not 0%.] (...) I shouldn't be wasting my time disspelling FUD like this, but as long as I said the above, I should really define what I mean by "there are (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ahh.... at least they have that one little thing that means so much to me... FDIC insured. :) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Actually I found PayPal's pw filter to be fairly stringent. KL (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Here's a good one: Long,Term/P1an! Passed with +178% I think I've got the hang of it now. (...) Delaying positive and negative results and temporarally blocking ip's for logins that have too many tries is probably the best way to discourage (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A combination of things... first, by then there will be more things in place that will matter more; second, the pw validator will very likely be less stringent; third, I predict that within the next nine months, a major online banking site (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Gee, that was so funny I almost forgot to laugh. There are plenty of 6-character pw's that you can use that have 5 letters and one number or special character, and plenty of 7-character pw's that you can use that are all lowercase letters. I (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I just figured out how to easially pass the LUGNET pw test. Use lots of special characters. This one: ^n).F6'%#*><}{#: scores a whopping 900% with no warnings. Just make sure you throw in a number a lower case letter and an upper case letter (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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I have just started listing and evaluating my sets using the new LUGNET set list feature. In the noties field, I put a "PIB" code that would help me determine if I had the Pieces, Instructions, and Box for the set I was entering. I just realized (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What? You mean there's more to LUGNET than sparring about passwords and spam? As to the link, thanks, new I had scene it B4. I never knead dictionaries, personally, except when siteing to refute... Just ask me, I'll be glad to tell you wot a (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Maybe Todd will finally unveil his gigantic space minifig colony. He's been promising it since '98 .... That would be something to see! I'm not laughing any more :-O - Dan (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) LOL, no not that. :) --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Huh? Ther is only one thing I can think of that has a nine month completion cycle, and it doesn't have a thing to do with passwords. Could you elaborate? KL (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) heh, I wouldn't know anything about the newsreader, but it shouldn't be hard to put in the mail gateway... and that would certify the sender... however, for the web interface (after thinking about it more), you want it to me a lot more (...) (26 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, I was thinking of something newsreader-based. It'd be more of a pain for the web interface. Unless someone wants to hack something into Mozilla. :) Once upon a time, Verisign was making a big deal over personal certificates. Guess they (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) hmmm... now there's a thought.... how would that work though? make a private/public key pair for each member, and store the public key in the cookie? but what would stop someone from sniffing and stealing the cookie? auth over ssl? hmmm.... (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) University of Oxford. <ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/...rdlists/>. Wordlists have non-password related uses too, apparently. :) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't find it funny; I'm just glad it hasn't been a problem. It'd be nice to hack in some sort of GPG-based authentication system.... (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No, I meant exactly that: I didn't think that anyone would ever (a) forget their password or (b) not be able to just go look it up. When you put it in a cookie, you don't even have to remember it beyond that, unless you move to different (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ya, when Suzanne showed it to me a while back, I was blown away. I guess it's like professional sw that's used by some real cw makers. (...) Exactly -- it's not part of the core system, and nothing except itself depends on it, and Java is (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Huh? Todd, I hope you meant to write, "I didn't think about dealing with people forgetting their passwords". People forget passwords *all* *the* *time*. That's why so many sites have such ridiculously unsecure password requirements -- so (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd: I just got a chance to read about the engine behind the Crossword puzzle. Very very powerful and sophisticated, but also, apparently, commercial software. How does this square with the LUGNET philosophy? I thought you didn't want to use any (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1HDIu.J6p@lugnet.com... (...) other (...) I (...) So ... are you going to tell us what is going to happen nine months from now or just leave us hanging? IMHO, the password checker and system (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Imagine it is all you *can* do, as Todd didn't actually do the typing, he said he got lists of words readily available from the 'net that are made available (by whom?) to aid in building stronger password checkers. (and also to aid in building (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A solution to this could be to do the following: - when someone asks for a password reset, create a new password for them, put it in the list, also put it in a special "reset account" password file (along with the ID). - when the user receives (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh! One other thing, duh. An advantage this has over pure semaphores or mutexes is that, since it has a sort of "memory" about how many times an IP address has recent sent a failure, it could easily respond with immediate 403 errors (upon (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) FTP standard ASCII text document, one word per line. Convert to ISO-8859-1 if necessary (character-based search & replace, quick). Feed to indexer via pipe. Walk away, sip coffee, come back later, it's all done. No typing. --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Password crack detection and slowing (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) I've been thinking about this more tonight, and reading a bit about SysV semaphores, but I don't have experience with them and I'm finding the docs confusing, especially where Perl is concerned. Anyway, upon further reflection, I wonder if (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ^^^...^^^ Ouch! I can only imagine the time it took you to key all that data in. (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a problem. It does fail too many good pw's, partially because it tries to be too clever in transmogrifications and 20 different language lookups in its dictionary of 3 million words. (It was just as easy to put in that many as it was to (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup, it's a serious system. Most systems don't take pw issues seriously. (...) We'll see how many people find it funny nine months from now. --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm amazed on how complex and sophisticated the Lugnet password system is. There are the password suggestions, Password strength analyzer which even includes an internal dictionary and gives you the CPU time that it took to analyze the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) My old bank (US Trust) used my social security number + PIN for phone access to my account. Eep. (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) No that would work, I wrote down the password you sent me and the two new ones I chose and they are pretty memorable, I hope. Implement something that generates a new password AND wipes out ALL the old ones in one fell swoop. Then send me the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) I didn't plan for that. In the beginning, I honestly didn't think that anyone would ever forget their password (or at least not have it written down somewhere that they could find it). I'll have to come up with something. Since the pw's are (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) But doesn't that make somebody have to log in again if they use *any* kind of non-static-IP connection -- i.e., a typical dial-up or DHCP connection -- and not limited only to shared proxy servers? If they're on a typical ISP dial-up PPP (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) As is mine. Todd has one opinion of where that is. Some people think it is too strict. Some are happy. I wonder if any think it is too lenient? (...) I know it is affecting me. Todd sent me a new password and I set two more that hopefully I (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) The BrickShelf uses the cookie returned *and* the ip address that the cookie was issued to for reauthenticate login. Nobody has complained about loosing login yet via multiple proxies (i.e. aol). Also, cookies can be made *much* more difficult (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (URL) [...] On the other hand, a server could probably get around that by (...) I'm very tempted to head in that direction. Even not relaxing the strictness of the validator, I think it would be wise. (...) Cooking hacking is the logical place (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Um, yes I know that. It's also possible to generate "human random" dictionaries that speed up brute force of "strong" passwords where users are forced within certain limits. BTW, I wonder what the keyspace is of all (8 chars and less as (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, I was looking the other day on the main lugnet page (www.lugnet.com) and realized there is no direct link to the FAQ group (news.lugnet.com/faq/). Ouch. I mean, people can't ask questions if they don't know where to ask them... Ideally, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, I wondered why I couldn't access the site... I also just checked the traffic page, and it is showing "all quiet" in all three columns. -Joel (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I noticed... If you do have plans in the near future to charge me for the CPU time i use on your server, i'd be ruined. LOL! /Joakim Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) some (...) or (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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The server was rebooted a few minutes ago in connection with cleaning up some areas of the disk that were overflowing from logs. This didn't affect web or news functionality but was preventing email from coming in or going out. I apologize for the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This probably helps not at all, but FWIW, I'll comment that we've had similar problems with other websites, and yes, even with LUGNET when connecting through Juno (god how I'd kill to not have to use a modem). Anyway, suffice to say that the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, it's supposed to do that. --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is there a way to tell if a given IP address is a shared proxy server or not? If you disable login access as one user from a given IP address, then you effectively disable login access as _all_ users from that IP address, because it would be (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) They all work for me. 'Course, those are hosts, not subdomains. :) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Probably the latter. But maybe (tying threads together) we could have Todd print a bar code that we swiped with our :CueCats to verify it was us (along with a rather easier password that we had to remember) ?? Personally I think one should (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I can access them, but everything except news and guide just say "Hello world! This is ####.lugnet.com!", but maybe it is supposed to do that? --Tobias (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not if you only disable loggin in as that user from that ip. (...) I think a minimum of 6 characters is a good limit. It's the character diversity that is causeing problems. Also, you could make failed attempts take a few extra seconds to (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The swipe-through ATMs are probably a lot cheaper, both to install and maintain. They don't have all the mechanical parts needed to accept and return the card (ooo, reversing motor), so they shouldn't break down as often. Of course, not having (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I've been on a few BBSes, quite a while back now, and believe me, some of the passwords that I came up with were quite alphanumeric, and rather random. A hacker's chance of guessing a random, or even semi-random, password is therefore theoretically (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1F3z5.5Gs@lugnet.com... (...) Well, some ISPs around my area at least go over a satellite link. If someone tries to trace the route, they will most often see me as coming from the satellite (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 36^6 is about equal to 2^31. Maybe it was typical 5-character pw's that resulted in 24-26 bits of true information...I don't remember for sure, it was many months ago. OK, yes, <calculator poking> 36^5 is about equal to 2^26. Also, IIRC, I (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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It works fine from Sweden;) I included some info to you, maybe you can find it usefull? 8 164 ms 144 ms 176 ms bar1-serial6-1-1-0.N...nyr.cw.net [206.24.200.157] 9 168 ms 136 ms 170 ms acr2-loopback.NewYorknyr.cw.net [206.24.194.62] 10 175 ms 178 ms (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi there! Excuse me if i am totally lost here... Is it not so that a 6 letter password containing letters from A to Z and 0 to 9, can have 36^6 different combinations and contains 48 bits in a unique order? A binary value containing 0 or 1 in 8 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Someone in the Washington, D.C. area is reporting having trouble accessing things on img.lugnet.com and news.lugnet.com...possibly some kind of DNS confusion somewhere. (img.lugnet.com is where images from the sets database are served.) Anyone else (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ouch. How easy is it for a thief to get your customer number? How many digits is your PIN? (...) natch. :) (...) Disable accounts on repeated fails and you make it trivial to DoS someone. Disable IP addresses and you lock out the innocent on (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Can we have the notes fields (both public and private) available on the "My Collection" page? I know I'd find it useful. (I currently maintain my own web page for my collection, which has things like last year's happy meal sets which don't (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, all they need to know is my customer number and a PIN to view my account records. I would consider my bank account records much more valuable than my LUGNET profile, no offense :) If the concern is script kiddies cracking accounts, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup. (...) Done! Thank you very much. Chris (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup! Like on a yellow stickie note on a monitor? So I've been told. :-) But that little insecurity is more secure overall than having a system full of bad pw's that any script kiddie anywhere in the world can crack while sleeping. BTW, if (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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