Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : Logins not always successful https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:26:57 +0000 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:55:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=24897 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[Logins not always successful : Version 6 was released in 2002,...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129647.html#129647 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 24897
Posted: 26 November 2007 at 9:55pm

Version 6 was released in 2002, before then for the first 6 months it was called surf-net forum, so it it has web wiz forums anywhere within it then it is a version 6 or above. Version 7 was released around the end of 2003.]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:55:04 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129647.html#129647 <![CDATA[Logins not always successful : It was version 5.x I think - or...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129645.html#129645 Author: dan74
Subject: 24897
Posted: 26 November 2007 at 8:22pm

It was version 5.x I think - or maybe 4?

When was 6 released?]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:22:50 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129645.html#129645 <![CDATA[Logins not always successful : You shouldn&#039;t need to reset...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129643.html#129643 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 24897
Posted: 26 November 2007 at 5:29pm

You shouldn't need to reset the passwords.

If you have a version 6.x forum that doesn't have encryption the migration tool will automatically encrypt the passwords for you.

If you use version 7.x or above then passwords will be already encrypted.

Disabling encryption is not recommended and may lead to issues in the running of your forum.
]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:29:49 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129643.html#129643 <![CDATA[Logins not always successful : We had no choice to turn off encryption...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129642.html#129642 Author: dan74
Subject: 24897
Posted: 26 November 2007 at 5:17pm

We had no choice to turn off encryption (we have 90,000 users, resetting everyone's password and emailing them wasn't feasible).

In the setup file, there is this comment:
'If you do disable Encrypted Passwords - You will also need to directly edit the database to type in the admin password to the Password field in the " & strDbTable & "Author table at record position 1 also edit both common.asp files to change this variable
I am looking for this variable in other common.asp files but can't find it. Is this no longer relevant?

Thanks
]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:17:16 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129642.html#129642 <![CDATA[Logins not always successful : The problem maybe because you...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129639.html#129639 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 24897
Posted: 26 November 2007 at 4:21pm

The problem maybe because you have disabled encryption of passwords. This is not recommend and more than likly has coursed the issues you mention.]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:21:58 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129639.html#129639 <![CDATA[Logins not always successful : Hi,We upgraded to 9.0.6 a few...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/logins-not-always-successful_topic24897_post129638.html#129638 Author: dan74
Subject: 24897
Posted: 26 November 2007 at 4:00pm

Hi,

We upgraded to 9.0.6 a few days ago (from a really old version of WebWiz). We transferred over the users from the old tblauthor manually, but we've turned off the encryption.

But we have a lot of users who are unable to login. I can replicate this - I look up in the database and then try logging in using their credentials.

As soon as I run an update query on tblAuthor to change the password I can successfully login.

There were 126 emails over the weekend from users unable to login (some of those because they forgot their password, but most are saying they've got a password reminder email and still it doesn't work).

Which is really bizarre. Any ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks
Dan
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