Passwords
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Topic: Passwords
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Passwords
Date 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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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 28 October 2003 at 10:47am
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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. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 28 October 2003 at 10:54am
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Additional security, all good crackers would attempt to use the username as a password first. ------------- L. Jamal Walton http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 28 October 2003 at 11:20am
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Waste of time, around 2 minuites of time.
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Plonker wrote:Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 28 October 2003 at 12:02pm
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thats the users problem.. if they wanna have the same password as the username, let them have it |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 28 October 2003 at 12:21pm
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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. |