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    Posted: 28 October 2003 at 8:33am
Maybe you should have a check to prevent people from making their password the same as their username?
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If people want there password to be the same as the username who cares? this would be a wast of time to code.
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Additional security, all good crackers would attempt to use the username as a password first.
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Originally posted by Plonker Plonker wrote:

If people want there password to be the same as the username who cares? this would be a wast of time to code.

Waste of time, around 2 minuites of time.
People who hack accounts use the same username as first guess

 
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thats the users problem.. if they wanna have the same password as the username, let them have it
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But you keep getting people coming to this forum saying:

"OMG MY FORUM WAS HAXORED"

When if you had this security check probably 50% of them wouldnt have that problem.
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