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Subject: 
Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:35:14 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Kevin Loch writes:

I think we agree in what makes a password stronger or weaker.
My recommendation is to choose the right balance between convenience
and security.

As is mine. Todd has one opinion of where that is. Some people think it is too
strict. Some are happy. I wonder if any think it is too lenient?

If no one is hacking accounts and many users are complaining
about the password filter, then you might want to adjust the filter settings.
My guess is that many more people will explore and use the more advanced
LUGNET features if you do that.  I'd like to see more people rate sets,
list inventories and create web pages on LUGNET.  I'm almost certain this
password thing is affecting that.

I know it is affecting me. Todd sent me a new password and I set two more that
hopefully I will have better luck remembering, but I still have 3 that are
cluttering up stuff. How do I remove those if I don't know what they are?

++Lar



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  Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
 
(...) I didn't plan for that. In the beginning, I honestly didn't think that anyone would ever forget their password (or at least not have it written down somewhere that they could find it). I'll have to come up with something. Since the pw's are (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
 
(...) The BrickShelf uses the cookie returned *and* the ip address that the cookie was issued to for reauthenticate login. Nobody has complained about loosing login yet via multiple proxies (i.e. aol). Also, cookies can be made *much* more difficult (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)

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