Dail up password

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Lynn

Set up internet, dail up worked fine, signed off and came back to get back
on the 'Net and now Win XP looks like it's doubled my password. I get an
error that says password and ID do not match, that's when I found the
password in set up was wrong also. I corrected it. Logged off and came
back AGAIN, it doubled the password.
Why and what can I do to fix this.

Thanks!!!
 
Lynn bashed at the keyboard and said:
Set up internet, dail up worked fine, signed off and came back to
get back on the 'Net and now Win XP looks like it's doubled my
password. I get an error that says password and ID do not match,
that's when I found the password in set up was wrong also. I
corrected it. Logged off and came back AGAIN, it doubled the
password.
Why and what can I do to fix this.

Thanks!!!
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In XP extra password "dots" are put in to help disguise the password. Once
you have succesfuly connected, ignore the ammount of "dots" in the password
box.
It's a security thing.......
 
Lynn said:
Set up internet, dail up worked fine, signed off and came back to get back
on the 'Net and now Win XP looks like it's doubled my password. I get an
error that says password and ID do not match, that's when I found the
password in set up was wrong also. I corrected it. Logged off and came
back AGAIN, it doubled the password.
Why and what can I do to fix this.

Thanks!!!
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This is by design - it isn't "set up wrong". It's a security measure to stop
someone guessing your password by the length (e.g. you have a six character
password, XP doubles it to 12, the casual observer will think you have a 12
character password and therefore won't guess at 6).

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THANK YOU!! I'll stop changing it.

Lynn

Perdita X. Dream said:
This is by design - it isn't "set up wrong". It's a security measure to stop
someone guessing your password by the length (e.g. you have a six character
password, XP doubles it to 12, the casual observer will think you have a 12
character password and therefore won't guess at 6).

--
Perdita X. Dream

Please help us to help you
http://groups.google.com
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm.
Please note that the reply address is fake.
Keep all posts to the groups as private requests for assistance
(i.e. email/IM) cannot be acknowledged. Thank you.
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You know...my ISP I called for help just might havetold me that and saved me
all that trouble. Knowing my ISP..they probably didn't know either.

Lynn
 
You show your IQ with the message YOU wrote.
I'm very surprised at how rude some of you people are on this newsgroup.
Unless I ever say "HEY TED"... don't bother with a reply to any of my posts.
Oh....why don't you hold your breath until I do ask, OK?

Lynn




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Perdita X. Dream said:
This is by design - it isn't "set up wrong". It's a security measure to stop
someone guessing your password by the length (e.g. you have a six character
password, XP doubles it to 12, the casual observer will think you have a 12
character password and therefore won't guess at 6).
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You stupid ****ing ****! XP does not double the characters of a password,
the characters are added at random. If XP simply doubled them every time, it
would make it academic to what the true charater length would be, you twat.
Of course, I have to remember you have the logic of a gormless linuxfuck!
 
Lynn said:
You show your IQ with the message YOU wrote.
I'm very surprised at how rude some of you people are on this newsgroup.
Unless I ever say "HEY TED"... don't bother with a reply to any of my posts.
Oh....why don't you hold your breath until I do ask, OK?
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Go **** yourself with porcupine!
 
Bet it took you awhile to come up with that one....

Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn't have given you worse advice.

Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you'd had enough oxygen at
birth?

I'd like to see things from your point of view but I can't seem to get my
head that far up my ass.

Lynn


<snip>mentally challenged reply<snip>
 
Lynn said:
You show your IQ with the message YOU wrote.
I'm very surprised at how rude some of you people are on this newsgroup.
Unless I ever say "HEY TED"... don't bother with a reply to any of my posts.
Oh....why don't you hold your breath until I do ask, OK?

Lynn
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Lynn,

Ignore it. It's nothing more than a troll. It only posts here for the
attention it blatantly isn't getting anywhere else. Kill-file it, it never
posts anything remotely helpful. Trouble is, it'll be back tomorrow using a
different email 'address'.

Would you mind doing me a favour and not quoting its posts if you ever find
it necessary to reply to it in the future (though I cannot forsee a time
when that would ever /be/ necessary!)? Thanks.
 
Lynn said:
Bet it took you awhile to come up with that one....

Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn't have given you worse advice.

Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you'd had enough oxygen at
birth?

I'd like to see things from your point of view but I can't seem to get my
head that far up my ass.

Lynn


<snip>mentally challenged reply<snip>
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Thanks, honey! Now, if you could just quit feeding it...;o)

Perdi
 
Ignore it. It's nothing more than a troll. >


I'm putting "it" in kill file as we "speak".
Would you mind doing me a favour and not quoting its posts if you ever find
it necessary to reply to it in the future (though I cannot forsee a time
when that would ever /be/ necessary!)? Thanks.
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I thought I removed the replies, sorry.

Lynn
 
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