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Re: Getting a password reset?
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Date: 
Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:01:32 GMT
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Sounds like maybe you should automate it, and have a script-driven requester
that takes the address of the user and then automatically sends the password
to the registered address of the person.  The same way a lot of websites
handle forgotten passwords ...

Cheers ...

Geoffrey Hyde

Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:Fy11tH.Ep5@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.admin.general, Allan Bedford writes:
Is there any way to get your Lugnet password reset if you have
forgotten/lost the original password that was issued with your • membership
kit?

I looked on the password change page, but it doesn't mention what to do • if
you don't know the current password.

I'll have to ask the system to assign you a new one and call you on the
telephone with it or mail it to you.  Send phone number or snail mail
address.

--Todd



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  Re: Getting a password reset?
 
(...) There are, I think, two gotchas with this plan 1. There isn't really a concept of a "registered" email address, per se, that is associated with a user. A user can have multiple addresses. For instance, I have 3 listed on my member page: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Getting a password reset?
 
Geoffrey Hyde <ghyde@ledanet.com.au> wrote in article <Fy1IrB.9qE@lugnet.com>... (...) requester (...) password (...) I agree, 100%. Regards, Allan (...) do (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Getting a password reset?
 
(...) I'll have to ask the system to assign you a new one and call you on the telephone with it or mail it to you. Send phone number or snail mail address. --Todd (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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