topic Re: Community Passwords get over-written in Plusnet Feedback

Community Passwords get over-written

colintivy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:57:31 GMT

Hi Folks,
I have the problem of my chosen password to log into Community being automatically overwritten by what might appear to be my Plus.net password, with the result that I keep getting "incorrect password" error messages when I have put in the proper one. I can correct this by putting the right one in by email but it is a bit of a nuisance. Is this due to the fact that there is some similarity between the two, although they are different word lengths? It has never happened before, so has a prompting mechanism been added recently?

Re: Community Passwords get over-written

BenTrimble — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:59:05 GMT

Clear your cookies and cache to solve all ills

Re: Community Passwords get over-written

colintivy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:56:20 GMT

Hi Ben,
Your link for clearing cookies etc., seems a bit dated. I am on Firefox 3.6.6 at present and the Tools Menu does not have the Clear Private Data option. It does have Clear recent history which is not the same thing. Also if you select Page info > Security > view cookies then there are some Community ones listed but clicking the remove button does not seem to affect anything. I will watch this space for a bit. Going on a week's hols tomorrow. Should I have put this post in Community Site?

Re: Community Passwords get over-written

Oldjim — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:02:16 GMT

if you select Clear History when Firefox closes you can then select which parts of the history you want to clear
I had a similar problem and it was a corrupted saved password in Firefox

Re: Community Passwords get over-written

pierre_pierre — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:18:54 GMT

you can also go to Tools- Options -Security and clear remembered passwords there

Re: Community Passwords get over-written

Steve — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:29:59 GMT

Colintivy FireFox 3.6.7 is out and fixes a vulnerability that now seems fixed according to my secunia profile, May i suggest you upgrade to it for your own security.

Re: Community Passwords get over-written

colintivy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:24:26 GMT

Thanks fellas,
I thought that it looked like old information! Will follow it all up when I get back from a few days off and withdrawal symptoms!!