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Re: Getting a password reset?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:25:46 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Allan Bedford writes:
> > > But if I can get set up as a 'registered' user of Lugnet, then why can't I
> > > set up a 'registered' email address to which I authorize any
> > > 'administrative' emails to be sent?
> >
> > Haven't set that up yet but I agree it's a good way to go.
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> It'd probably go something like this --
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> 1. You request a new password at some web page.
> 2. Server sends a short confirmation e-mail to your known e-mail address.
> 3. You receive the e-mail and click the hyperlink to bring up a webpage to
> confirm that you received the e-mail (prevents someone else from tampering
> and resetting your stuff without your permission).
> 4. At that webpage, you click a button to actually then generate a new pw
> for yourself.
Seems like the standard approach. Here's a wrinkle to think about. You allow
multiple passwords. So are you going to generate a new one and leave the old
one in force? What if I have 4 already? On the other hand, if you get rid of
the old one, which one? All of them? Suddenly I've went from 4 (that
apparently I forgot all of them) to just one.
With the old one in force I now have a useless (since I forgot it) password
clogging up space. WIthout it, I may have reset the password that my son knows
as well as the one I forgot.
Not showstoppers but worth thinking about.
> I like the way PayPal has separate confirmations, BTW, for e-mail and snail
> mail -- they mail one code to each and they have separate confirmations.
Except that it's quite slow to do anything significant like add a bank
account...
++Lar
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