Re: If the user forgets their password...

From: Sebastian Lauwers (dacrashanddie_at_nospam.9online.fr)
Date: 08/19/04

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    Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 03:27:19 +0200

    steve wrote:

    > Often people forget their userid. So I would not suggest asking for
    > that. Just ask for email address. Yes, someone might play games with
    > you, and request password using your email. So you get an unwanted
    > email. But they can do that all over the web anyways, by signing you
    > up for all kinds of articles, etc.

    well in fact i meant that the good user only got an email, nothing else.
    That was my point. :)

    A badly written script would ask for email, maybe a secret question,
    change the password and send it to your mailbox.

    A good written script will make sure the user wants this password
    changing to be done, and then, do it.

    Best regards,
    S. 

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