One user has recently reported that they received a message that they'd recently had three failed login attempts using their ID.
This is usually due to a spambot attempting to login to an account by trying to guess a password.
Therefore can you please ensure that your password isn't easily guessable. Guessable passwords include the username itself, and simple ones such as '12345', 'qwerty' or 'password'.
I suggest you use a strong password - ideally one that contains a mixture of letters, numbers and/or punctuation characters. Also try to change it regularly.
I'll be making changes to the user registration system to force all new passwords to contain a mixture of letters and numbers.
IMPORTANT - user passwords.
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Re: IMPORTANT - user passwords.
JQW wrote:Therefore can you please ensure that your password isn't easily guessable. Guessable passwords include the username itself, and simple ones such as '12345', 'qwerty' or 'password'.
Crikey. That's my bank and credit card passwords rumbled!
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I could not make one single sound
Jah told me, 'Son, use the word'
And now I'm as free as a bird
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Re: IMPORTANT - user passwords.
Hmm, I wonder if I should change my password from "1Cunt" to something else then?
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Re: IMPORTANT - user passwords.
Lance Matthew wrote:Hmm, I wonder if I should change my password from "1Cunt" to something else then?
2cunts
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Re: IMPORTANT - user passwords.
As you probably know, I usually log in as Hungry Joe. For some reason I can't get logged on.
Just on the off chance that there was a problem with my password, I tried to get another password but got a password activation email but no password.
Help gratefully appreciated,
Joe.
Just on the off chance that there was a problem with my password, I tried to get another password but got a password activation email but no password.
Help gratefully appreciated,
Joe.
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Re: IMPORTANT - user passwords.
That's me back in business.
Thanks Martha.
J
Thanks Martha.
J
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I'm going to miss Jungry Ho'. I wish he would have stuck around.
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Jeff K wrote:I'm going to miss Jungry Ho'. I wish he would have stuck around.
He was a cunt.
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Re: IMPORTANT - user passwords.
Could some of you more technical types have a looksie at my password and suggest ways I might render it more secure:
Username: LMG
Password: donkeys_knob_end
donkeys_knob_end69, perhaps?
Username: LMG
Password: donkeys_knob_end
donkeys_knob_end69, perhaps?
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