April 18, 201312 yr On logging in just now, I was asked to renew my password because its over 500 days old. Is this normal??
April 18, 201312 yr ...same for me...coming up for the last few days...but no facility to change. ....today it let me change ...so did.
April 18, 201312 yr Author Thanks Mike, it's not just me then. Curiously, I replaced my secret password with exactly the same one, and the software didn't seem to notice!!! Bit of a shocker that I've been on here for so long!!
April 18, 201312 yr If you receive the message, log on with an incorrect password, then follow the steps for "I forgot my password" where you have to re-submit your email address and you will be sent a new temp one that you can change after logging on. Mine was 1285 days - I really should have changed it when I started getting the rogue emails during the vBulletin hack. Edited April 18, 201312 yr by shemozzle999
April 18, 201312 yr Yes, and it nearly drove me up the wall last night. The box that came up said "you can change your pass-word here" but when I clicked on "here" nothing happened. I could not access my profile page or anything. This morning, I accessed the site on my other PC and "here" actually took me to the relevant page. All's well now
April 18, 201312 yr Me too last night, 700 and something - usually post via Tapatalk and it would not allow a password change. Did it this morning via a PC and all fine
April 18, 201312 yr I changed my fine though I have been unable to use a hotmail email address ? Jerry
April 18, 201312 yr Aww......thats nice....all us 'old timers' nicely logged in fresh again and ready for the next few years lol Lynda
April 18, 201312 yr Mine was 1783, gave up last night trying to reset it. What is the lowest that anyone has had ? Is it just asking everyone to update ~ I also kept my old password
April 18, 201312 yr If you receive the message, log on with an incorrect password, then follow the steps for "I forgot my password" where you have to re-submit your email address and you will be sent a new temp one that you can change after logging on. Mine was 1285 days - I really should have changed it when I started getting the rogue emails during the vBulletin hack. Didn't work for me, kept getting another box demanding another name for an electric bike. I tried entering pedelec, ebike, e bike, e-bike, electric bicycle, all refused as incorrect! Eventually after some hours it finally let me access to change the password without that demand. The while thing is a bit of a nonsense anyway, it seems more like a bug to me in the way it's been behaving, and this is after all a forum, not an online bank.
April 18, 201312 yr mine was 1722 days, took ages to find the bit were it says use this page to change as it wasn't clear just to click on the last bit of the message.....maybe it should be in bold writing were to click.
April 18, 201312 yr I must have been lucky, I just clicked on the link, changed my password and was in as quick as a rabbit down a burrow Lynda
April 18, 201312 yr Didn't work for me, kept getting another box demanding another name for an electric bike. I tried entering pedelec, ebike, e bike, e-bike, electric bicycle, all refused as incorrect! Eventually after some hours it finally let me access to change the password without that demand. The while thing is a bit of a nonsense anyway, it seems more like a bug to me in the way it's been behaving, and this is after all a forum, not an online bank. You have to use the original email address when you first signed up and your first guess worked for me. Perhaps HelenJ can explain? Edited April 18, 201312 yr by shemozzle999
April 18, 201312 yr Hi all, It's my fault..I was trying out an option to update passwords on a more frequent basis (current is never) and it looks like everyone has been affected. If you're asked for an email address, it will need to be the one registered to the account (if you can remember it for some of you!). Email me if you get stuck.
April 18, 201312 yr I`m back more by luck than judgement . A bit like the Dentists , where you get get kicked off the list if you don`t respond ?
April 18, 201312 yr Hi all, It's my fault..I was trying out an option to update passwords on a more frequent basis (current is never) and it looks like everyone has been affected. If you're asked for an email address, it will need to be the one registered to the account (if you can remember it for some of you!). Email me if you get stuck. Yes got them all taking their helmets off and scratching heads to sort it mmmmmmmmm me to;)
April 19, 201312 yr I don't understand why the password needs to expire. At work, I need a password, which expires every four weeks, to log into the computer systems. Then, every sub system needs a password, which expires every four weeks. Multiply this across the number of systems that I use and I am changing a password every 3 or 4 days. Its so frequent that I have to write them all down in a jotter which I keep on my desk top. I'm told that the frequent changing of passwords is to enhance security. Why do we to change our passwords to access a website about bicycles? What's the worst that could happen?
April 19, 201312 yr I don't understand why the password needs to expire. At work, I need a password, which expires every four weeks, to log into the computer systems. Then, every sub system needs a password, which expires every four weeks. Multiply this across the number of systems that I use and I am changing a password every 3 or 4 days. I know it's a pain but.. Its so frequent that I have to write them all down in a jotter which I keep on my desk top. I'm told that the frequent changing of passwords is to enhance security. *THIS* (writing down passwords on a piece of paper) is the main reason I'm aware of that drives the change your password every xx days system behavior ! Why do we to change our passwords to access a website about bicycles? What's the worst that could happen? Someone reads the jotter on your desk and can login into all your systems ? Depending on what they have got access to it could be 'pretty bad' . As an aside, I have the same hassle here at work with many different system wanting there passwords reset all the time. What I do is when I need to change the password for any system, I change it on all systems to the same password. Not ideal, but better that writing it down I think hth sp
April 19, 201312 yr On logging in just now, I was asked to renew my password because its over 500 days old. Is this normal?? Mine said 364 days old. Mountainsport.
April 19, 201312 yr *THIS* (writing down passwords on a piece of paper) is the main reason I'm aware of that drives the change your password every xx days system behavior ! But its the need to keep changing passwords that forces people to make a note of them, a self defeating measure!!!!!!! If they just stayed the same they could be remembered easily.
April 19, 201312 yr But its the need to keep changing passwords that forces people to make a note of them, a self defeating measure!!!!!!! Couldn't agree more, and to be clear it annoys the sh!t out of me too If they just stayed the same they could be remembered easily. ...and would make it much easier for someone to try and guess it over a longer period of time and make all those passwords written down from years ago still relevant.... It's a little bit chicken and egg, and I'm not sure passwords can provide a good long term answer.
April 19, 201312 yr I'm not sure passwords can provide a good long term answer. I'm sure they aren't, but much of the problem is that of excessive use making us create so many. If I go online to buy something from a retailer they often demand a password and/or registration. Why is that, my credit card tells them who I am and my delivery address gives further info. Conversely I can walk into retail stores and buy anything, pay cash and they have no idea of my identity. Does civilisation then collapse? In many cases no security is necessary, if only because it doesn't work anyway. We have password entry here in Pedelecs, but that hasn't stopped the site suffering some very unpleasant and disruptive attacks on various past occasions. The problem with security is that its presence can provoke attack, its existence prompting some to challenge. It's like the proverbial red rag and bull situation, walk past a bull and the odds are it will ignore you. Flap an irritating red cape in front of it and it will be provoked.
April 19, 201312 yr I know it's a pain but.. *THIS* (writing down passwords on a piece of paper) is the main reason I'm aware of that drives the change your password every xx days system behavior ! Someone reads the jotter on your desk and can login into all your systems ? Depending on what they have got access to it could be 'pretty bad' . As an aside, I have the same hassle here at work with many different system wanting there passwords reset all the time. What I do is when I need to change the password for any system, I change it on all systems to the same password. Not ideal, but better that writing it down I think hth sp I can't see the point in making system users have multiple passwords all of which expire. It's self defeating because it becomes impossible to remember them all, hence it encourages users to write them down which compromises security. It is much better to encourage people to use strong passwords and to commit them to memory. My personal passwords for important things like banking are a series of random upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. Each password is 15 characters long and I commit these to memory. For web sites like this, I just use a word. This regime has never let me down and I feel that my personal website security is much better than that of the company I work for.
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