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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:27:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> > > Yeah, I don't think I've ever "signed in" simply because I can't
> > > bother to keep up with another password I didn't pick. Once I hear I
> > > can login ONCE with this password I refuse to put any effort into
> > > holding onto or remembering and change it to something I can remember
> > > without effort, I'll do it. Until then, having a password without the
> > > ability to change it isn't of much value to me.
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> > You can sign in once with your password and stay permanently signed in.
> >
> > (Simply use the middle radio button at the Sign-In page.)
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> So what do I do when I login at a publicly accessible machine in a
> lab? What does anyone in a college environment do?
Use either the top radio button and close the browser when you're done, or
use the bottom radio button and set a timeout like 1 hour in case you forget
to sign out manually.
> People who are
> lucky enough to have a spouse who reads (and has a membership) at
> LUGNET but uses the same computer?
Leave yourself signed in, or sign out manually when you're done, or let your
spouse sign in on top of your sign-in (replacing your sign-in cookie with your
spouse's).
> To be so concerned about password security as you seem to be (2,050
> times easier to brute-force?) having the permanently signed in option
> as a solution to not being able to create our own passwords seems a
> little silly.
That would be silly, yes, if that were the case, but that's not the case.
That is, having the permanently signed in option has absolutely nothing to
do with not being able currently to pick arbitrary passwords. There will
always be a permanently-signed-in option, even when you can pick your own
password.
> I don't have my computer save my Yahoo! username and password - why
> would I do it for LUGNET?
Dunno. Point being that you can, if you want to. When you said...
"Once I hear I can login ONCE with this password I refuse to put any effort
into holding onto or remembering and change it to something I can remember
without effort, I'll do it."
...you seemed to be saying that you couldn't -- that you had to log in each
time rather than just once.
--Todd
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| (...) But I don't _want_ to, and to suggest that as an alternative to carrying around a machine-generated password seems a little boneheaded. I don't _want_ to leave myself logged into Lugnet just like I don't _want_ to leave myself logged into (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) So what do I do when I login at a publicly accessible machine in a lab? What does anyone in a college environment do? People who are lucky enough to have a spouse who reads (and has a membership) at LUGNET but uses the same computer? To be so (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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