Changing login name

[Swen]

I want to change my login name for "security" reasons. So do I need to send $10 dollars to DT or is there a way around?

[Doug Taylor]

You can change your display name. Check "My Home" and then look towards the bottom of the screen.

And uhh, stop borrowing money from loan sharks.

[Swen]

okay, I'll jet let these new guys take my identity....

It aint that bigadeal, no worries.

[Doug Taylor]

How about changing your password?

[Swen]

hrmm...good idea but I'd probably forget the new one seeing as I have to remember more passwords than I can even remember having. I'll just hope and pray that the 1337 h4(k3r$ have mercy on me.

[Doug Taylor]

Every consider a new password and writing it down somewhere?

In order to change your login name, I'd probably have to go mess around with the MySQL tables. Changing a password takes about 10 seconds. Digging around a MySQL table for your user entry would probably take several weeks until I get off my duff -- if I remember to do it!

Trust me, it's far easier and quicker just to change your password. If you forget it, well, there's a "Forgot My Password" function on the login screen.

[MikeD]

There is a security problem with the name "Swen"?

How?

[Doug Taylor]

Well, this guy named "Al Caydah" wrote one day about grief he was getting over his display name.

You haven't heard of the Swen Street mafia, MikeD?

[MikeD]

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Well, this guy named "Al Caydah" wrote one day about grief he was getting over his display name.

You haven't heard of the Swen Street mafia, MikeD?

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lol. I gotta wonder, since his avatar is the nefarious three-piece-suit man from the Black Mesa complex in the game Half-Life......

[Swen]

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There is a security problem with the name "Swen"?

How?

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Some dude with glasses knocked on my door in the middle of the night and asked if Swen was home. I told him no.




I really wanted to change the login name mostly out of personal preference if there was a way for me to do. The security reason was more out of sarcastic fun if you will. And I dont want DTs eyes drying out looking through the database.

[kellwolf]

As far as the password goes, dude I have different passwords for every website imagineable. There is no WAY I could remember them all. Truth, I only need to remember one. It's the password to my password protected text file on my desktop that contains all the other passwords. Yeah, don't none of you smart alecs get any ideas. I generally change it about every 6-30 days.

[Kristie]

yup, i have something like that on my IPAQ - it's a lifesafer when it comes to knowing all the *important* stuff!