Login Problems
After yesterday's upgrades, I have had several users report that they are unable to login. All of the reports have stated that they are getting password denied errors when attempting to login.
It appears that during the upgrade, a number of passwords for users was corrupted. I don't know how many or which ones were so I can only inform you that if you are having problems logging in, please email [email protected] from the email address listed in your profile and include a new password that you would like set.
Megan posted this at 03:22 — 9th January 2002.
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I was having this problem last night while the upgrading was in process, but it's fine now.
mairving posted this at 13:16 — 9th January 2002.
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Same here too.
mjames posted this at 21:47 — 9th January 2002.
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I didn't realize the upgrade took place and thought someone had gotten into my account or something. :eek: Glad it's working now.
Christian_SEO posted this at 05:34 — 12th January 2002.
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I was able to logim but not post. Every time I clicked "Reply" I would be taken to the site's home page.
I have been using Nestscape Navigator 4.08.
I just tried IE 5.5 and it works ok, so it must be the version of NS I was using.
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Chad Simper posted this at 05:49 — 12th January 2002.
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I will have to look into this tomorrow. I am not on my development machine so I don't have Netscape to test and correct this problem.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Christian.
Ken Prescott posted this at 04:55 — 13th January 2002.
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Hey Chad, My other login, Grandmaster, says it has a invalid password.
I've tried multiple times this week to login
Mark Hensler posted this at 07:42 — 13th January 2002.
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I've sent an email to the email account for Grandmaster...
mairving posted this at 18:44 — 13th January 2002.
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If that were true then I couldn't have posted this. It is true that it is using encrypted passwords but I think that all that is required is for you to re-login with your existing username and old password. I am using the same password as before. It could be a IE 6 cookie problem.
I saw this thread over at V-bulletin site.
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Mark Hensler posted this at 19:17 — 13th January 2002.
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I'm certain that the upgrade for vBulletin encrypted the old passwords.
I'm running IE6 and have had no problems. I've not changed the IE security stuff, and I'm not using XP's firewall.
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Ken Prescott posted this at 03:44 — 18th January 2002.
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What extrmbob said is untrue. It my encrypt passwords but it doesn't change them. Would vb release software that had to have 1000's of users passwords changed manually? No.
And, my password hasen't been fixed. I've been waiting for two weeks, what gives?
Chad Simper posted this at 05:50 — 18th January 2002.
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vB does encrypt the passwords during the upgrade but it just encrypts the old ones. For 99% of people, I'm sure this didn't affect them. It has, however, affected a number of people and we are getting those errors corrected as they are brought to our attention.
Ken, please read my original message for instructions on getting your password corrected. At this time, I have not received an email from you regarding this issue so your password can not be updated.
Jack Michaelson posted this at 10:57 — 18th January 2002.
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Ken, I was having the same probs... I used this link to reset my pw and get a new one.
With that new pw I used the Control Panel to set my pw to the old one.
Hope it helps,
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Ken Prescott posted this at 00:10 — 19th January 2002.
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Mark Hensler emailed me and asked me what I would like my new password to be.
Mark Hensler posted this at 01:41 — 19th January 2002.
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Yes, but you never replied. Send me an email from that account, and I'll change it. Just give me anything, and you can change it to whatever you like in the User CP.
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Grandmaster posted this at 03:34 — 20th January 2002.
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Yeah I sent you a email. I used the password find thing to getit though when my other email was up.
Ken Prescott
Mark Hensler posted this at 05:01 — 20th January 2002.
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hmmm... I never got that email.
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