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| (...) <snip> The plans are progressing? (...) <snip> Set a Date? (...) Please keep us informed. Anticipation is part of the fun! Good thoughts to and for you both! sheree (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people)
| | | | | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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| (...) No, I meant exactly that: I didn't think that anyone would ever (a) forget their password or (b) not be able to just go look it up. When you put it in a cookie, you don't even have to remember it beyond that, unless you move to different (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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| (...) Huh? Todd, I hope you meant to write, "I didn't think about dealing with people forgetting their passwords". People forget passwords *all* *the* *time*. That's why so many sites have such ridiculously unsecure password requirements -- so (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G1HDIu.J6p@lugnet.com... (...) other (...) I (...) So ... are you going to tell us what is going to happen nine months from now or just leave us hanging? IMHO, the password checker and system (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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| (...) Imagine it is all you *can* do, as Todd didn't actually do the typing, he said he got lists of words readily available from the 'net that are made available (by whom?) to aid in building stronger password checkers. (and also to aid in building (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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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)
| | | | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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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)
| | | | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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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)
| | | | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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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)
| | | | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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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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