Change Your Password

[Scott Greczkowski]

^^^ This is Dumb.

As I said before people may keep the same password if they want to, which makes it a non issue.

Some folks like to bitch even if there is nothing to bitch about.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

To those who changed their password and lost their Pub Membership, when changing your password did you also update your email address as well?

vBulletin support thinks this is what has been happening.

 

[kittyhas1000legs]

I've had adblock for years, so becoming a pub member meant I no longer had those big, blank spaces

 

[jayn_j]

I'm not seeing the ads, but since I changed my password (and then changed it back) I am needing to log in every time. It doesn't remember me anymore.
<never mind. I expect I just need to clear my cache>

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Stuck cookie on your browser (I hate when that happens!)

 

[navychop]

There seems to be a bug for Pub Members / Supporting founders, so I turned the forced password change off for those members for now.

For those members it takes away their pub membership after they change their password.

Looks like this is a vBulletin bug for this version.

If you are a pub member who changed their password and are not seeing ads please report it here or PM me so I can fix your accounts.

I changed my PW and am a Pub member (a raging bit-o-holic!) and did not see ads. It did later make me re-log in for a second time.

 

[jrp]

I'm being forced to do repeated logins, but am not seeing ads.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Its a cookie issue, clear your SatelliteGuys cookies which will fix it.

 

[jrp]

Only being forced to login if I come satelliteguys.com. If I go to satelliteguys.us, I'm still logged in.

 

[jrp]

Clearing cookies on my iPad did not change the login situation.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yeah use .US for now. We will convert over to .COM in February.

 

[jrp]

Got it. Thanks.

 

[TheKrell]

Satelliteguys kept making me log in fresh Every Darn Time I came here. I couldn't find how selectively to clear cookies, so I tried changing my password back. No go. If you want to do this in FF, use Tools... Options... Privacy tab.

 

[mike123abc]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/techno...s-mostly-pointless-says-microsoft-researcher/

In a typical example of bad user behaviour, I don't think up a new password each time one expires, I simply rotate a few easy-to-remember ones. And that's another risk – because I have to remember several passwords, I keep my rotation simple and therefore easier to crack.
But am I wasting my time? A Microsoft researcher thinks so. In a report on computer security, Cormac Herley argues that much of the advice given to users about password security offers little benefit. He says:
"[Changing a password often] will help only if the attacker waits weeks before exploiting the password. So this amplifies the burden for little gain. Only if it is changed between the time of the compromise and the time of the attempted exploit does [this rule] help."

Long MS research paper https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=...ople/cormac/papers/2009/SoLongAndNoThanks.pdf

Essentially the argument that if the password is broken, the mischief is accomplished long before a required password change.

 

[n0qcu]

"Your password is 1487 days old, and has therefore expired."

ROTFL!

Is that all, mine said something like 15427 days old. (I don't remember the exact number)

 

[Bobby]

Is that all, mine said something like 15427 days old. (I don't remember the exact number)

That's 42 years, I don't think so...

 

[Tony S]

Is that all, mine said something like 15427 days old. (I don't remember the exact number)

Mine said the same thing...something like 15546 days old!!

After changing my password, I have to log in every time that I come back to this site. What cookies do I have to delete? All of the satelliteguys.us cookies, or just specific ones?

 

[TheKrell]

I deleted specific cookies by searching for satelliteguys, and that worked. There were scads of them.

 

[Rey]

Is that all, mine said something like 15427 days old. (I don't remember the exact number)

you guys are the true supporting founders!!!! supporting a site before its existence

 

[navychop]

I'm using .us and it's still requiring me to log in repeatedly. So I've tried deleting the Satguys cookies (only two forms of it here) and we'll see what happens. FF 18.0