<> There, now you can dial up -- 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 > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > ZapZone brought to you by WhatUSeek: > http://www.whatUseek.com/webmaster/email.html > Get your 100MB FREE Internet storage! Sign up now - > www.netdrive.com/?O=ZZN4 > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >