 | | change password & lost password —William R. Ward
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| | | Almost every website that uses passwords has an ability to change the password, and a "Forgot my password" link on the login screen. LUGNET doesn't (that I can find, anyway). I think this is a serious shortcoming, since the only way to get a (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: change password & lost password —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) There is a change password page. It's a bit hard to find, though. This is the page to change your password: (URL) agree that a link to it from the 'edit my profile' page would be handy. Hope that helps. (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | Re: change password & lost password —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) How is sending a URL better than sending a password? I assume that once you get a new password in the mail, the first thing you do is change it anyway, right? So what's the difference? Dan PS. I agree that sending passwords in plaintext is (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: change password & lost password —William R. Ward
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| | | | (...) Note that when I wrote that, I didn't know you *could* change the password on LUGNET. I had previously searched for a "change password" link without success. But the URL is only good for a limited time; if you want to have it send a password (...) (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: change password & lost password —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) of course, I agree with you. That's why (well, because Todd agrees with this concept as well), when you get a password reset, you don't get your old password sent to you, but a new randomly generated one, even the admins don't know what it is. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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