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(...) A solution to this could be to do the following: - when someone asks for a password reset, create a new password for them, put it in the list, also put it in a special "reset account" password file (along with the ID). - when the user receives (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) FTP standard ASCII text document, one word per line. Convert to ISO-8859-1 if necessary (character-based search & replace, quick). Feed to indexer via pipe. Walk away, sip coffee, come back later, it's all done. No typing. --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ^^^...^^^ Ouch! I can only imagine the time it took you to key all that data in. (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a problem. It does fail too many good pw's, partially because it tries to be too clever in transmogrifications and 20 different language lookups in its dictionary of 3 million words. (It was just as easy to put in that many as it was to (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yup, it's a serious system. Most systems don't take pw issues seriously. (...) We'll see how many people find it funny nine months from now. --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 36^6 is about equal to 2^31. Maybe it was typical 5-character pw's that resulted in 24-26 bits of true information...I don't remember for sure, it was many months ago. OK, yes, <calculator poking> 36^5 is about equal to 2^26. Also, IIRC, I (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi there! Excuse me if i am totally lost here... Is it not so that a 6 letter password containing letters from A to Z and 0 to 9, can have 36^6 different combinations and contains 48 bits in a unique order? A binary value containing 0 or 1 in 8 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ouch. How easy is it for a thief to get your customer number? How many digits is your PIN? (...) natch. :) (...) Disable accounts on repeated fails and you make it trivial to DoS someone. Disable IP addresses and you lock out the innocent on (...) (26 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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