Administrator Panel Password

A totally different password for Adminstrators to access the Administrator panel.
Okay, so you know how you can verify your password to enter the Admin Panel? Well i was suggesting that we could set a different password to enter, like if my log in password was (Cheese) i wouldn't enter that to enter the panel you would enter something else (CheeseCake)

Get it?

By the way, (cheese) is not my password.

EDIT: This will be an optition to turn this On and Off in the ACP
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Kinko

What are you suggesting? Explain more

Revisd and edited, hope this helps.

If you mean having to log in to the Administration Panel, it's already possible.

Administration Panel (Advanced mode) > General > Security > Confirm password to administration access : > Hit 'Yes', Hit save.

No, not like confirming the password, but setting a different password. Confirming your password is te one you log in with, was thinking like a different password beside the one that you log in with.

What Kinko is suggesting is that we have a separate password for the admin panel.

IE: to enter the forum we use cheese, and to enter the panel, we use a new password - cheesecake.

Personally, I like the moral and forground of this suggestion, and I was going to suggest it a few months back, but didnt

=> yes.

however I myself have too many passwords as it is now.

darren1 wrote:What Kinko is suggesting is that we have a separate password for the admin panel.

IE: to enter the forum we use cheese, and to enter the panel, we use a new password - cheesecake.

Exactly.

Bump.

bump

Voted yes this would be a good security feature

Yes

Voted Yes..Good One ...

Thanks you all for voting, lets keep it up

Voted yes, very good .

very good so hackers can't take your forums down so easily.

=>Yes

Bump

darren1 wrote:What Kinko is suggesting is that we have a separate password for the admin panel.

IE: to enter the forum we use cheese, and to enter the panel, we use a new password - cheesecake.

Personally, I like the moral and forground of this suggestion, and I was going to suggest it a few months back, but didnt

=> yes.

however I myself have too many passwords as it is now.

You can always use the same password for everything,

This is a waste of time and it's a feature of vBulletin,but I'll support your suggestion Kinko,since it will increase the protection of our forums,

=>Voted yes.

Thanks Tayne, Torres, and Master Marc for voting.

And thanks Master Marc for expressing your thoughts about this suggestion.

Kinko

YES

More security so YES!

:)tayne:) wrote:very good so hackers can't take your forums down so easily.

=>Yes

Alas, a hacker who can log on as an admin can use cross site scripting (XSS) to get round the password or possibly discover it. If you havent been stupid in the first place then said hacker will need to be very skilled to get your password in the first place and surely if he is that skilled in the first place a spot of XSS wont be much bother ?

The best solution would be to have an admin panel that isnt integrated into the forum package, one that controls the database and the forum externally, bind it to ip address of the genuine admins and uses completely different login credentials.

DefinedOne wrote:

:)tayne:) wrote:very good so hackers can't take your forums down so easily.

=>Yes

Alas, a hacker who can log on as an admin can use cross site scripting (XSS) to get round the password or possibly discover it. If you havent been stupid in the first place then said hacker will need to be very skilled to get your password in the first place and surely if he is that skilled in the first place a spot of XSS wont be much bother ?

The best solution would be to have an admin panel that isnt integrated into the forum package, one that controls the database and the forum externally, bind it to ip address of the genuine admins and uses completely different login credentials.

So is that a Yes or a No?

Thanks for voting everyone.

Kinko

is there any thing from admin i need to know any new up dates

It would be great!
Thus the control panels, would be safer!

And of course, also added, which had different passwords.
Each director of the Forum, to put the password you want. Different passwords


Thank you!

joe@joeservices.net wrote:is there any thing from admin i need to know any new up dates

Admin updates are found =>here

Next time dont use the suggestion section for help.

@Russel Thanks for voting

Kinko

Time for an old fashioned Bump.

Yeah, this will really make our forums more secure.

For security purposes, I suggest that we have the option to set a different password of the admin panel. A password different from the normal forum login. For admins who don't want this can simply key in the same password for the admin panel.

Good idea Doc. I voted yes.