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Post by mpelmmc December 11th 2010, 21:43

Hello everybody Very Happy

Today, I want to suggest this feature for forums. It's a unique password for the admin panel.

Currently we can put the option "Confirm password to administration access" in:

PA => General => Securiy => Confirm password to administration access => Yes.

But, in this situation, if a hacker, "hack" (find our password) our forum, he/she can access to the admin panel, and do a "total destruction" in our forum. So, the suggestion is a new feature in PA => General => Security, a proposed name would be "Unique password for the admin panel".

The role would be, they have a unique password to access the administration panel, and without this password, the "hacker" can't access to the admin panel. Obviously, the administrator founder inform to the co-admins this password.

I think this is all. I think isn't necesary to tell, that the password can change the admin fundator of the forum.

I don't know if I have expressed well... You can tell me the dudes or comentarys (:


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Post by invisible_fa December 11th 2010, 22:29

Yeah, this would be a good way to limit the access to an important place like the ACP, and protect our forums as much as possible against an attacker.

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Post by Caihlem December 12th 2010, 01:31

No way affraid

Because then, all the "hacker" has to do is get a lucky guess or whatever.
Added to that, if the password isn't personal, some people tend to have their tongues less loose then it should be :/

Too dangerous in my opinion
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Post by mpelmmc December 12th 2010, 01:36

Caihlem wrote:No way affraid

Because then, all the "hacker" has to do is get a lucky guess or whatever.
Added to that, if the password isn't personal, some people tend to have their tongues less loose then it should be :/

Too dangerous in my opinion

This I suggest, will be a second password. We will have the normal option (Confirm password to administration access) and this.

But the password I say, only know the admins of the forum, and if you put an admin, at least I trust him geek
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Post by mpelmmc December 24th 2010, 01:10

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Post by Cody! December 24th 2010, 20:49

Hello

I am vote yes!
this was suggested in the Spanish forum and we all like xD

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Post by KingOfSports December 24th 2010, 21:38

Think about the current number of people who can't remember their password. If we add this feature, that number will double.
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Post by harold January 2nd 2011, 21:44

@ KingOfSports , i don't think its that people can't remember the password , there seems to be a fault somewhere in the forum makeup judging by the number of people who cannot get into their forum's including myself , when i setup the forum as with all sites i always write my signin name and passwords into a book
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Post by Beno January 4th 2011, 16:55

I don't think this would be very practical. The support forum receives hundreds of PM's a day about lost founder passwords and this would only increase the work load for the staff that have access to the tools to reset there admin panel.

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Post by I Mozilla I January 4th 2011, 18:35

Would be good protection, but as said before. The number of people which lose their passwords would atleast double.

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Post by mpelmmc January 8th 2011, 14:44

Bump ^^
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Post by Hoops January 8th 2011, 20:58

If people could remember their passwords then it wouldn't be a bad idea
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Post by mpelmmc January 22nd 2011, 14:57

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Post by Base January 22nd 2011, 20:51

I can see the logic behind this idea, but I don't support it. I've voted no. Purely because people would forget their passwords twice as much and that it wouldn't really "protect" your forum better...

Just be careful of who you choose as your administrators and you'll be fine. Wink
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Post by gedel aray January 29th 2011, 17:30

oh..i lost my password
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Post by Harperboy326 January 29th 2011, 20:16

Base wrote:Just be careful of who you choose as your administrators and you'll be fine. Wink

That is the best way you can protect your forum. Just watch who you make administrator, and like Base said, you'll be fine.

I think if you can't remember your password, and you have to have it reset by Typlo or MrMario, you shouldn't have another password to remember. Typlo is busy enough, he doesn't need a another work load of password resets.

=> Vote: No

gedel aray wrote:oh..i lost my password

You will not get any support here. This is not the correct section. Wink
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Post by HeroUltraOmega February 2nd 2011, 17:28

gedel aray wrote:oh..i lost my password
Well now that doesn't sound good... i don't think i can help you with that though... albino
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Post by mpelmmc February 25th 2011, 17:46

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Post by ToTheFuture March 4th 2011, 19:07

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Post by mpelmmc March 10th 2011, 23:05

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Post by !_NICK_! March 11th 2011, 08:09

I'm not so sure about this though. I like it, but I don't. I won't vote because I'm not sure. Sorry though.
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Post by mpelmmc September 5th 2011, 19:04

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Post by mpelmmc September 24th 2011, 03:03

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Post by darkstar1337 September 24th 2011, 03:27

I like this idea, its just makes it that much safer.
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Post by Lillia September 24th 2011, 21:36

I'm pretty forgetful, this probably won't help me very much. Vote no.
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Post by PotterLand September 25th 2011, 22:41

I voted yes. It is very good. Our passwords will be difficult no 12345 Razz
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Post by mpelmmc October 15th 2011, 02:46

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Post by Guest October 15th 2011, 03:42

If a hacker could hack into your first password, they can probably hack into this one. However, it could buy you a little time for someone to figure out you're being hacked and take steps to lock them out.

I voted yes.
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Post by mpelmmc October 15th 2011, 03:48

Leah7 wrote:If a hacker could hack into your first password, they can probably hack into this one. However, it could buy you a little time for someone to figure out you're being hacked and take steps to lock them out.

I voted yes.

The matter is not "the hacker has hack your password", it's "the hacker has GUESS your password"... The hacker may can guess one, but if the second one is very different he probably won't guess the password...
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Post by mpelmmc November 20th 2011, 15:33

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