OT: Was: RE: chose new ISP, now can dial them but not connect - S OLVED

[Marc Chung]

<<clicketi-click>>

There, now you can dial up 

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-- 
Marc Chung [mchung@asu.edu]
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately"


On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Mark Peoples wrote:

> That's why you hope you don't get a tech named Simon, who has a slight
> accent, and whose first question is "What's your username?"  =)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arthur dent [mailto:raftman44@telecom-digest.zzn.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:38 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: chose new ISP, now can dial them but not connect - SOLVED
> 
> 
> > Inficad tech support has one guy who speaks Linux, I'll talk to him today
> > and hear what he  has to say. Crossing fingers now....
> 
> Well everything checked out - modem dialing, connecting but still no login
> so on a whim I 
> asked the support guy to verify my password - turns out they transposed two
> letters when 
> they set up the account. No wonder I couldn't login! Argh..... armed with my
> "new" password I 
> was in-like-Flynn in under a minute.
> 
> The fact that the support guy was able to see my password in-the-clear seems
> like a pretty 
> big security hole - I would have thought they would only store a hash of the
> password. Sure 
> hope they don't have all their customers' passwords in some spreadsheet
> file. Hmmmmmm.
> 
> Regardless, now I'm up and running. Thanks to all for their help.
> 
> raftman
> 
> 
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