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helpdogscat

wots the crack with you have 5 chances to log in or your ip will be banned for 15 minutes, this isnt a bank, so whats with all the silly security, I would hazad a guess that a very large amount of the users mon to fri are workers behind a poxy server, ie in theory one person could effectively disable boards for everybody behind a poxy by attempting to log in wrongly evry 15 mins, i think its a needless feature that should be turned off

SantaHoe

helpdogscat wrote:

wots the crack with you have 5 chances to log in or your ip will be banned for 15 minutes, this isnt a bank, so whats with all the silly security, I would hazad a guess that a very large amount of the users mon to fri are workers behind a poxy server, ie in theory one person could effectively disable boards for everybody behind a poxy by attempting to log in wrongly evry 15 mins, i think its a needless feature that should be turned off

Jesus, you'd want to have some boring-ass job to try that. :rolleyes:

Lump

What's the deal with having to try and log in 5 times.....


John

DeVore

First post here requesting a security thing to be turned off.... yeah.

Look. A Flying Pig ----> *insert ascii art of flying pig. I'm too lazy to do it*



DeV.

Lump

Holy ****, I just saw one heading toward heathrow.... the 18:40 Glasgow to heathrow if I'm not mistaken.


John

ecksor

helpdogscat wrote:

wots the crack with you have 5 chances to log in or your ip will be banned for 15 minutes

It's a new feature of vBulletin 3.

, this isnt a bank, so whats with all the silly security,

Actually, it is a bank. Feel free to PM DeVore regarding our competitive savings and loan options.

Did you get locked out of your regular account and register a new one to post this?

CuLT

Lump wrote:

What's the deal with having to try and log in 5 times.....


John

I concur.

seamus

OK....once we can forgive, twice even if you were out drinking last night and your hands are shaking, three times is an extreme rarity, any more than that and you've forgotten your password. Give it up.

And 15 minutes? Go get a cup of coffee ffs. It's not like you have to fill out a form in triplicate and wait 6-8 weeks to be issued a new password..

:rolleyes:

helpdogscat

ecksor wrote:

Did you get locked out of your regular account and register a new one to post this?

no, just registered in the wee small hours with a few sails to the wind and next day vainly attempts to remember password and hits the big 5 ahh

woosaysdan

save your password in a word document if you are the only one that uses the computer

wolfman

helpdogscat wrote:

i think its a needless feature that should be turned off

Is that so?

Look what I got when I checked my mail today from yesterday evening

wolfman,

Your account on boards.ie/vbulletin has been locked because someone has tried to log into the account with the wrong password more than 5 times. You will be able to attempt to log in again in another 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: ***.***.***.***

Don't forget that the password is case sensitive. Forgotten your password? Use the link below: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/login.php?do=lostpw

All the best,
boards.ie/vbulletin team

It just happens that when I do a whois look up, the IP address does not belong to any ISP I use, so it was obviously an attempt by somebody to get into my account here on Boards.

I have contacted the company in question with all relevant details and they will look after it from here, but I for one, would NOT like to see this feature done away with

Shrimp

Here's your flying pig DeVore:

..._____ ____
.....`----,\....)
....`--==\\.../
..... `--==\\/
......-~~~~-.Y|\\_
......@_/........./...66\_
......... |....\....\...._(")
...........\.../-|.||'--'
............\_\ \_\\

Shrimp

*Bump...





(someone's gotta like the pig)

StupidLikeAFox

twould make a nice sig

Shrimp

yes... I can see your a fan of the owl ascii in the sig's