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#496857 - 02/26/10 06:47 PM Login issues
neil Offline

Neil Ticktin

Registered: 06/05/08
Posts: 1189
Loc: Westlake Village, CA
Hi all,

There's been some confusion on login issues, and we think that we may have it figured out. If you are STILL having issues with login, please do the following.

Logout of the forums
Logout of both http://www.mactech.com and http://www.macnews.com
Login at http://www.mactech.com

and you should be automatically logged in on the forums.

If that is not the case, please give me more details here.

Thanks!

Neil

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#496865 - 02/26/10 07:31 PM Re: Login issues [Re: neil]
yoyo52 Offline
Nothing comes of nothing.

Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 30520
Loc: PA, USA
No luck, Neil. I logged out of here, and wasn't logged in to either of the other two sites. Then I tried to log in to MacTech. This is what I got:

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#496869 - 02/26/10 07:36 PM Re: Login issues [Re: yoyo52]
yoyo52 Offline
Nothing comes of nothing.

Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 30520
Loc: PA, USA
OK, retried it and succeeded. The issue, I guess, was that my original password was too short to be accepted. But the error message didn't say that. Anyway, I clicked on the "forgot password" link, got an email that allowed me to log in and then change the password. When I tried to input the old password, I got the notice that the password wasn't long enough, and then I made the password longer and everything now is peachy keen. smile
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#496870 - 02/26/10 07:36 PM Re: Login issues [Re: yoyo52]
scottyb Offline
Where's the cache?

Registered: 01/16/08
Posts: 233
Loc: Alaska
Standby...


Edited by scottyb (02/26/10 07:37 PM)
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#496872 - 02/26/10 07:37 PM Re: Login issues [Re: scottyb]
yoyo52 Offline
Nothing comes of nothing.

Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 30520
Loc: PA, USA
If you have a password under 8 characters long, that's what comes up, Scotty. Try doing what I did finally and see if that helps.
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#496877 - 02/26/10 07:44 PM Re: Login issues [Re: yoyo52]
scottyb Offline
Where's the cache?

Registered: 01/16/08
Posts: 233
Loc: Alaska
Sigh... Tried what yoyo suggested, changed my password from 6 characters to 10, still no go. confused
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#496897 - 02/26/10 08:19 PM Re: Login issues [Re: scottyb]
neil Offline

Neil Ticktin

Registered: 06/05/08
Posts: 1189
Loc: Westlake Village, CA
Originally Posted By: scottyb
Sigh... Tried what yoyo suggested, changed my password from 6 characters to 10, still no go. confused


Can you give me specifics as to what is happening here?

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#496902 - 02/26/10 09:05 PM Re: Login issues [Re: neil]
scottyb Offline
Where's the cache?

Registered: 01/16/08
Posts: 233
Loc: Alaska
First, I tried exactly what you said to do in the original post, and I got the exact same result as yoyo did in his reply to you. Then, after he said he got the login to work by lengthening his password, I tried doing that. My original password was only 6 characters long, so I re-entered a new, 10 character pass here at the forums. I then again logged out of the forums, and tried to log in to MacTech, but got the exact same "Unrecognized Username or Password" error that I have always gotten.
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#496904 - 02/26/10 09:14 PM Re: Login issues [Re: scottyb]
KateSorensen Offline
77 and counting

Registered: 05/19/01
Posts: 3666
If a person tries to get a new account, and

If that person does not enter a password that satisfies the secure conditions of this site,

One may not get a new account unless they fuss around with capitals, numbers, letters and number of characters in a configuration that will satisfy the requirements.

I'm going to keep what log-ins I have and if in the future they keep me out of any MacTech/MacNews sites, I'm out! I'm just too old to change my ways. smile

Never thought it would ever happen, but I think I can even live without a forum. Whoa! . . . . . . .

[and my memory too foggy]

Proof I'm old and dumb: Yoyo already said this! blush



.


Edited by KateSorensen (02/26/10 09:17 PM)
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#496905 - 02/26/10 09:14 PM Re: Login issues [Re: scottyb]
neil Offline

Neil Ticktin

Registered: 06/05/08
Posts: 1189
Loc: Westlake Village, CA
Originally Posted By: scottyb
I re-entered a new, 10 character pass here at the forums


That DEFINITELY won't work.

The idea here is for the forums to NOT control the login -- but the main site (which will do many more thigns) to control the login. So, the password needs to change at the main site, not the forums.

Can you try that?
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