Expired Password

[tshirtman]

Logged on this morning to a page that said my password had expired, and I needed to put in a new one,
I was a bit wary at first but put new password in anyway,
I'm just curious why this is, I've never seen this anywhere else, even with my online banking.

[gmb45]

for obvious reasons m8 to reduce the risk off your account being hacked, this happens to every one who dosnt change the pass after a period of time. a wise precaution. and it does happen, imagine what kaos it would cause if admin or a mods pass was hacked.

[Reapers]

ya i was gonna say its depends on the server and forum and hows it setup
whether it has the password expire setup and the mods or admin would of
been the peeps to ask but its sorted it now ^^

[tshirtman]

that's fair enough, to stop my account being hacked,
but there's one big flaw with the system
my current password was already there, all I needed to do was put new password in, how is this going to stop anyone hacking/hijacking my account, wouldn't an email notification be more safe

[Reapers]

all that can done though the settings with the server they just need to enable them but changing your password on the site is more secure than sending an email which is less secure because they dont maintain the security of that site and email accounts can be compromised thats why some important sites dont email stuff like that to them. the best defense is protecting the password and keep renewing it every so often.

[gmb45]

and dont forget longer pass the better. with upper /lower case and numbers.

[Meat-Head]

and dont forget longer pass the better. with upper /lower case and numbers.

What about film/tv quotes. Currantly my DK password is, "smoke me a kipper, i'll be back for breakfast" - nobody's going guess that matey.

[patkins]

Mine's - Back me a Kipper I'll have a smoke for Breakfast while I contemplate on what the world did to deserve Justin Beiber.
Takes me an age to log in.

[Meat-Head]

Some kind of warning would be nice, had a choice of missing a bus, or changing DK password. HAD to change password - missed bus.

It would not let me use the last password again (Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)

So ended up changing it to this:-

Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty You're listening to the boy from the big bad city This is jam hot MEAT-HEAD

Meaty

[Lainie]

i had to change mine too, then forgot what it was when i signed on on the pc so i got locked out!!

[Meat-Head]

i had to change mine too, then forgot what it was when i signed on on the pc so i got locked out!!

So how did you get back on?

[Lainie]

tried 5 times then had to request a new one etc. what a palava

[nara]

i had to change mine too, then forgot what it was when i signed on on the pc so i got locked out!!

Are you blonde Lainie?

[Lainie]

Are you blonde Lainie?

nah kinda burgandy/purple (but true)

[wongers]

nah kinda burgandy/purple (but true)

you don't look like phylis that used to be in corrie do you!