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| I've been on a few BBSes, quite a while back now, and believe me, some of the passwords that I came up with were quite alphanumeric, and rather random. A hacker's chance of guessing a random, or even semi-random, password is therefore theoretically (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Not if you only disable loggin in as that user from that ip. (...) I think a minimum of 6 characters is a good limit. It's the character diversity that is causeing problems. Also, you could make failed attempts take a few extra seconds to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) The insecurity of written down passwords is when they are put someplace accessible and obvious. This is done sufficiently often by people that it is often treated as an inherent problem with writing down passwords. One trick I have used to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) most (...) Me too. I've now forgotten all 3 of my passwords, including the two new ones that I worked very hard to come up with memorable phrases that I could remember and that passed that (*&)&@%&$# insanely strict password check. Anything I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Actually, all they need to know is my customer number and a PIN to view my account records. I would consider my bank account records much more valuable than my LUGNET profile, no offense :) If the concern is script kiddies cracking accounts, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Do all ATMs have a video recorder (or live person in the case of a point of sale ATM, though at least in many stores, you are also on video)? (...) An interesting question: would the maximum loss policies exist in Libertopia? Please follow-up (...) (24 years ago, 24-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Getting a password reset?
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| Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in article <Fy20EC.6GJ@lugnet.com>... (...) requester (...) password (...) that (...) instance, I (...) (URL) and I have a number of different cookies in force on various machines as well. But if I (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| 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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) It'd probably go something like this -- 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 (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Exactly! That'd be a great choice to have, as an option to choose along with nested full messages and the like - viewing an entire thread in brief mode. -- jJeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" -- Jeff (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Random suggestion: I wish that my filter and news-post-access settings would follow me around from computer to computer based on the lugnet ID and password. Random suggestion #2, which I think would actually be much more useful: I love the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Well, I think that you find turning your house upside down "more convenient" rather telling. Todd and I have had disagreements about this in the past. Leave it at that. One piece of advice, once you do get your password reset or once you find (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) typically, i've seen it where: 1) you request a new password (giving a little bit of personal info, name, etc) 2) it's sent to your last known email address. this way, if someone tries to tamper, the new password is sent to your email (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) It actually does now (as of about 3-4 weeks ago) -- to make it go, sign in with your member ID+password and then fill out the forms (news posting setup, skip-filter, news-by-mail settings) and they'll be stored into your member record on the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Cool beans! I love this "ask for a feature to find out it's already been implemented" idea. :^D (...) That would be *most* cool. I really like the way the brief mode works, with the suppression of quoted text and all that. It'd be most cool to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Heck, with an 'unlimited length' option, the brief mode would be a *great* way to view an entire thread -- you would get to see most of the actual writing, with almost none of the quoting. You'd almost never need the quoting, because you'd (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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