Ask PG: What if I forget my password?

Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by zellynhunter on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:28PM (#587330)

How do you know whether it's common or not? I've sat there several times trying to remember my password, remember whether I used Clickpass or not, etc. Finally, I just decide it's not worth commenting, and close the browser tab. (Posting under newly created account because I still can't figure out my old account's password.)

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by pg on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:31PM (#587337)

We log failed login attempts.

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by diego on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:14PM (#587544)

Password retrieval has been a standard feature for any website for many years. It's easy to do for users who have an email in their profile, and it gives the rest a good reason to enter it. When I created my account I added my email because I assumed that the feature existed. Good thing I haven't forgotten my password.

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by diN0bot on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:04PM (#587522)

someone doing a few failed logins before successfully logging in won't look all that different than someone doing a few failed logins and then giving up, which is what most humans would do (as opposed to scripts).

people naturally tend to have a small number of cross products of usernames and passwords...once it gets too large we start forgetting parts of it.

a couple times in the past year i've forgotten my password for hn. after the first time it happened i wrote it down so i wouldn't lose my precious karma.

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by DTrejo on Thursday April 30, 2009 @11:10PM (#588014)

How many accounts are inactive and with the last few logins failed?

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by EGF on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:32PM (#587339)

I am in exactly the same position - I abandoned an old account since there was no way to do this.

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by miracle on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:52PM (#587388)

I also reregistred because I forgot the password of my old account

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by oneplusone on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:18PM (#587448)

same here. 2nd account.

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by ttol on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:31PM (#587468)

also reregistered

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by jakestein on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:56PM (#587505)

also registered twice

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Re:Ask PG: What if I forget my password? by nopassrecover on Friday May 01, 2009 @12:29AM (#588087)

Why do you think my username is nopassrecover.

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