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(...) I'm amazed on how complex and sophisticated the Lugnet password system is. There are the password suggestions, Password strength analyzer which even includes an internal dictionary and gives you the CPU time that it took to analyze the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) My old bank (US Trust) used my social security number + PIN for phone access to my account. Eep. (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) No that would work, I wrote down the password you sent me and the two new ones I chose and they are pretty memorable, I hope. Implement something that generates a new password AND wipes out ALL the old ones in one fell swoop. Then send me the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) But doesn't that make somebody have to log in again if they use *any* kind of non-static-IP connection -- i.e., a typical dial-up or DHCP connection -- and not limited only to shared proxy servers? If they're on a typical ISP dial-up PPP (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) 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? (...) I know it is affecting me. Todd sent me a new password and I set two more that hopefully I (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (URL) [...] On the other hand, a server could probably get around that by (...) I'm very tempted to head in that direction. Even not relaxing the strictness of the validator, I think it would be wise. (...) Cooking hacking is the logical place (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Um, yes I know that. It's also possible to generate "human random" dictionaries that speed up brute force of "strong" passwords where users are forced within certain limits. BTW, I wonder what the keyspace is of all (8 chars and less as (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, I was looking the other day on the main lugnet page (www.lugnet.com) and realized there is no direct link to the FAQ group (news.lugnet.com/faq/). Ouch. I mean, people can't ask questions if they don't know where to ask them... Ideally, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, I wondered why I couldn't access the site... I also just checked the traffic page, and it is showing "all quiet" in all three columns. -Joel (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I noticed... If you do have plans in the near future to charge me for the CPU time i use on your server, i'd be ruined. LOL! /Joakim Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) some (...) or (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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The server was rebooted a few minutes ago in connection with cleaning up some areas of the disk that were overflowing from logs. This didn't affect web or news functionality but was preventing email from coming in or going out. I apologize for the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This probably helps not at all, but FWIW, I'll comment that we've had similar problems with other websites, and yes, even with LUGNET when connecting through Juno (god how I'd kill to not have to use a modem). Anyway, suffice to say that the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, it's supposed to do that. --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Is there a way to tell if a given IP address is a shared proxy server or not? If you disable login access as one user from a given IP address, then you effectively disable login access as _all_ users from that IP address, because it would be (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) They all work for me. 'Course, those are hosts, not subdomains. :) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Probably the latter. But maybe (tying threads together) we could have Todd print a bar code that we swiped with our :CueCats to verify it was us (along with a rather easier password that we had to remember) ?? Personally I think one should (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Any having trouble accessing lugnet.com subdomains?
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I can access them, but everything except news and guide just say "Hello world! This is ####.lugnet.com!", but maybe it is supposed to do that? --Tobias (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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