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Re: could someone please send me my password.
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:03:15 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
> > hey admins,
> > i cleared my cookies and other internet files the other night and mistakenly
> > erased my lugnet password. could one of you please send it to me.
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> The process is that a new one will be randomly generated and sent, Admins don't
> have a way to know what your password is, nor should they. I think but am not
> sure all your old ones are invalidated first.
that's fine since i don't remember any of my old ones. that is after all why i
asked for one.
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> Who did you try mailing before you posted? Mailing usually works, eventually.
> Right now Todd hasn't set up how to reset passwords for anyone else yet (a
> coding project perhaps...) so you eventually hvae to reach him somehow to get it
> done.
the last time i mailed someone about doing this about 2 yrs ago it took allmost
a month to get a resopnce. that's why i asked here.
> > i prommis to
> > save it in a word file this time.
> > thanks,
> > ondrew
> Better yet, once you have one setup, choose another one too, so that even if you
> forget one you still have another one. The password checker has a lot of good
> suggestions on how to make a secure yet remememberable password. passwords you
> choose that are strong, are better than passwords some random generator chose
> for you..
well after going through lugnet just clicking on links hopig to find something i
found the add a password feature. now that i know where it is i'll probably use
it but i first need an old password which i don't have.
ondrew
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> This message would be a lot better if I could have remembered the URL for the
> password checker and the password manipulation facility easily, they're not in
> obvious places. We need to add this info in more places I guess.
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> Ok found thenm
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> http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/pw/ (manipulate your existing passwords,
> you have to know at least one of them)
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> And
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> http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/pwsa/ (how good is your proposed password,
> is it strong enough for LUGNET?)
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> And
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> http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/password-suggestions (how to make a good
> password)
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> Hope that helps.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Hi Ondrew, I just asked the server to reset your password. Sorry it's still such a clumsy system. There's light at the end of the tunnel here, though. Last week (or what seems like last week; it may actually have been two weeks ago) I (...) (19 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: could someone please send me my password.
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| (...) Right. Sorry for any confusion on my part. When you said "mistakenly erased my lugnet password. could one of you please send it to me." I took that to mean you wanted *IT* sent rather than a new one generated and sent. So I explained, thinking (...) (19 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: could someone please send me my password.
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| (...) The process is that a new one will be randomly generated and sent, Admins don't have a way to know what your password is, nor should they. I think but am not sure all your old ones are invalidated first. Who did you try mailing before you (...) (19 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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