required a password reset? how come?

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hope their was not a security breach on the site. this seems to be quite common these days.
 

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Delighted to have your post and your company, but you're going to have to give us a bit more info.

Am I right in assuming the "reset password" is in relation to a Mac? Which? - model, year, operating system etc. Or to something else?

And then you talk of a "breach on the site" - which site? Do you mean the Mac Forums site? If so, that is standard practice - Mac Forums is supposed to ask members to change their PW every 120 days - though I have to say it has never asked me to do this:Blushing:

So, if in the end, you mean our Forums asking for a reset, then that's okay. No breach or security issue.

Perhaps you could post back confirmation of this - or otherwise.

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the login for the forums. was set to remember me but this time it forced me to change passwords. sorry I was referring to this website. :) I don't recall it ever asking me before now. sounds like its normal though, thanks.
 

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Quite normal and has brrn for some time. I think the site is set to ask users for a new password every six months but I don't remember the exact timing. The fact that the site is supposed to remember you is irrelevent as far as this setting is ocncerned. I have mine set to remember me and I still get asked to create a new password periodically.

Apparently even super-secret Moderator powers can't get past this requirement.:Confused:
 
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Quite normal and has brrn for some time. I think the site is set to ask users for a new password every six months


And I've often wondered what the valid reasons are for having to change one's password for access to such forums???

Like, is someone going to go to go to all the trouble to break-in and steal or use my login username in order to write something pretending to be me??? Not bloody likely I would think.




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Also macgig this is required if you empty caches and maybe do a Clear History.
 
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Also macgig this is required if you empty caches and maybe do a Clear History.


Good point Harry, or even after running some [recommended by some] utilities such as Onyx.app and other "cleanup" type apps.

At least when using their recommended default settings.




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Nope, not true. Your log on password is stored in your keychain which does not get touched when you clear caches, Safari history, or run OnyX. ;D The forum software is setup to require a personal password change after a certain number of log ons or a span of time. Right now it's set for 6 months if you access the forums on a daily basis.
 
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Mine sure does Charlie as late as yesterday after clearing caches and resetting History. Each and every site requests for user name and password, including this one.
 
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Nope, not true.


Sorry Charlie, and I don't know what parts and stuff are involved, but just as Harry says for his clearing, I have to re-enter my username (login-name) and password for various forums and webpage access every time I've run Onyx, and using its default settings.

As a result, I'm going to have to be really desperate to run it again. And it does some other things I can't quite put my finger on, but things seem different for a while after running it.

PS: I can't say that Onyx actually fixed anything either for the few times I've run it. :[




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Your password is still stored in you Keychain password, if you have Safari save it.
 

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If you reset Safari, your passwords will naturally be lost. But that's not what I said above. Clearing Safari caches and history does not remove your passwords. I can clear all caches using OnyX and it does not remove passwords. Also, I have my Safari set to clear history after 24 hours and that too does not remove passwords. I have no idea what Harry is doing that is removing his passwords?

Also I find it strange that Patrick has lost his passwords after running OnyX? Although Patrick may be running a different version of OnyX since he is not using High Sierra?
 
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Also I find it strange that Patrick has lost his passwords after running OnyX? Although Patrick may be running a different version of OnyX since he is not using High Sierra?

Yup, still mainly using Mavericks with my 2011 27" iMac.




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And I've often wondered what the valid reasons are for having to change one's password for access to such forums???

Like, is someone going to go to go to all the trouble to break-in and steal or use my login username in order to write something pretending to be me??? Not bloody likely I would think.




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Hey Patrick, how do we know it's really you now?;D
 
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Hey Patrick, how do we know it's really you now?;D


Just exactly the same as you always knew Rod, and how many attacks on your password have you encountered recently and I sure haven't known of any security breaches on mine.

Even if there were, they sure didn't do much and possibly because our passwords worked, and hence my question, why change something that already works??? And changing a password sure isn't going to lessen any attack attempts I'm sure in fact, may even put up a flag that a change was made.

I was just asking if there was a legitimate reason for changing a password that so many seem to harp on as the answer to increasing some security. It doen't make much sense to me but I guess it sounds like a good sensible reason.

But without a proper reasonable explanation.


BTW: I am NOT questioning such cases where the hackers gained access to user/client data of course!!!




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Unless, as you say you've already been hacked and the question there is how would you know? But I agree, the constant updating/changing of a secure password serves no purpose at all.
 
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Unless, as you say you've already been hacked and the question there is how would you know? But I agree, the constant updating/changing of a secure password serves no purpose at all.


And it seems a few others agree but too bad some sites and forums don't, including various subtopics:
Should You Change Your Passwords Regularly?
- Why Changing Passwords Won’t Necessarily Help
- When You Do Want to Change Passwords

https://www.howtogeek.com/187645/htg-explains-should-you-regularly-change-your-passwords/


Unless, as you say you've already been hacked and the question there is how would you know?
I guess if the site notifies you that they were hacked, if they even knew:Evil:
Or you read or hear that one of your financial institutions was hacked on some news report…




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