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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 05:44:24 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Salm writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > I really want the ability to set my own password.
Probably there will be a way to set an additional password to use on top of
the main password as a simple sign-in/sign-out layer, or to choose one of
several machine-generated passwords.
> > I've lost my password
> > somewhere and don't have a prayer of remembering what it is. SO I can't
> > rate my articles 100 and Todd's 0 until I either find it again or get my
> > pw set to something easy for me to remember (but impossible for anyone
> > else to get right)
> > Larry Pieniazek
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> So I suppose Todd is going to have to call you on the telephone again to
> give you your password.
By design, that is impossible. There is no way to look up Larry's password
because it isn't stored anywhere! What's stored instead is a one-way
encryption of his password (much safer). However, I could generate Larry
a new password and call him on the phone with that.
--Todd
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| (...) So I suppose Todd is going to have to call you on the telephone again to give you your password. I guess that we can forgive you as you have recently moved into a new home and that can increase anyones confusion/disorganization factor. Are you (...) (27 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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