The Powder Toy

help with account issues

  • triclops200     29th Jul 2010 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    he has been away today hasn't he, except for about 5 minutes this morning.
  • wouter215     29th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    ESS
    17 billion years to run down all combinations.
    it could take anywhere between 1 sec and 17 billion years to get the password.

    also check your keyboard layout settings, sometimes it changes on my pc..
  • Wilq     29th Jul 2010 Banned 0 Permalink
    This post is hidden because the user is banned
  • ESS     29th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    @lolzy

    That's fine. In the meantime I'll just keep trying to figure it out.

    @wouter215

    That's a very good point. Also, thanks! I wouldn't have thought of that! I'll check that.

    @wilq

    Lol!
  • ESS     29th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    @wouter215

    Thanks again for the idea! Unfortunately, I just checked and the layout doesn't appear to have changed. Sadly, my life just never seems to be that simple. Thankfully, though, this just proves to me that Ubuntu 10.04 is as reliable as always!
  • ESS     29th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Well, I still can't do much about the password. I may have to look into scripting it. It should be particularly easy since I already know a general set of characters that the botched password is likely to consist of.
  • ESS     29th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Is there a way to change the name of an account? So that if the botched Excimer Sun Software account were deleted I could change the name of this one to that?
  • Simon     29th Jul 2010 Administrator 0 Permalink
    ESS
    I may have just realised something.
    Usernames are stripped or spaces an other characters, Excimer Sun Software would become Excimer-Sun-Software, though this is not the case with passwords, you will have to login to the site to change it.
  • ESS     29th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Ohh! So my problem may not be the password I'm putting in, but the username itself! I may still be able to login to that account then, right?
  • ESS     29th Jul 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    It works! Thanks! I put in dashes instead of spaces in the username and the password worked just fine. I guess that means that the only account that needs to go poof is this one and not both...
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