Unable to access Patayatalk forum

[Steef 12]

Hi there,

 

I am speaking on behalf of mate Gonzo.

 

He has been unable to access the member's section for one some time now, His password was rejected and when he applied for a new one, that didn't work either. He did not receive an email from Pattayatalk on how to proceed to get new PW.

 

Any help would be appreciated by him.

 

Regards steef

[MM 6,562]

Hi there,

 

I am speaking on behalf of mate Gonzo.

 

He has been unable to access the member's section for one some time now, His password was rejected and when he applied for a new one, that didn't work either. He did not receive an email from Pattayatalk on how to proceed to get new PW.

 

Any help would be appreciated by him.

 

Regards steef

 

This would be best handled by a PM to me so we can sort it out.

 

He's undoubtedly forgotten his password, and if he can't get it sent to him by the forum (there is a link for sending the password to your email if you've forgotten), then he needs to update his email address or the message is going to spam.

 

I will need his current email and will reset his password if you send me the correct email address.

[Gonzo 419]

 

This would be best handled by a PM to me so we can sort it out.

 

He's undoubtedly forgotten his password, and if he can't get it sent to him by the forum (there is a link for sending the password to your email if you've forgotten), then he needs to update his email address or the message is going to spam.

 

I will need his current email and will reset his password if you send me the correct email address.

Thanks for your ready help and patience. :thumbup

 

One more silly question from me. I guess the 14 character PW is a temporary one and can be changed to something else I should be able to remember with my atrophied brain?

 

Cheers

[short 215]

How to choose a password from bu.edu

 

 

General Guidelines:

So, how do you have a “strong” password that is easy to remember? While it may seem tough to do this, there are a few simple tips that can make it easy.Note: the examples below illustrate just the concepts being discussed. No single technique should be used on its own, but rather should be used with other techniques. The combination of several will produce a strong password.

• Use a mix of alphabetical and numeric characters.
• Use a mixture of upper- and lowercase; passwords are case sensitive.
• Use symbols if the system allows (spaces shouldn’t be used as some applications may trim them away)
• Use a combination of letters and numbers, or a phrase like “many colors” using only the consonants, e.g., mnYc0l0rz or a misspelled phrase, e.g., 2HotPeetzas or ItzAGurl .
• Pick something obscure:
  • an odd character in an otherwise familiar term, such as phnybon instead of funnybone;
  • a combination of two unrelated words like cementhat
  • An acronym for an easy to remember quote or phrase (see below)
  • a deliberately misspelled term, e.g., Wdn-G8 (Wooden Gate) or HersL00kn@U (Here’s looking at you).
  • Replace a letter with another letter, symbol or combination, but don’t be too obvious about it. Replacing o with 0 or a with 2 or i with 1 is something that hackers just expect. It is definitely better than nothing, but replacing 0 with () would be stronger as it makes your password longer and is not as obvious
  • An easily phonetically pronounceable nonsense word, e.g., RooB-Red or good-eits .
  • Two words separated by a non-alphabetic, non-numeric, or punctuation character, e.g., PC%Kat or dog,~1#

Choose

You want to choose something that is easy to remember with a minimum of 8 characters that uses as many of the techniques above as possible. One way to do this is to pick a phrase you will remember, pick all the first or last letters from each word and then substitute some letters with numbers and symbols. You can then apply capitals to some letters (perhaps the first and last, or second to last, etc.) You could also perhaps keep or add punctuation.

Some examples:

Phrase First Letters Password So long and thanks for all the fish” slatfatf 5L@tf@tF “Best Series Ever: Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth” bsetgsot B53:tg’Sot “You Can’t Have Everything. Where Would You Put It?” ychewwypi Uch3Wwup1?

If you are selecting a password for a website, you may want to incorporate the first few letters of the website name into your password so that every password is different and if one gets out, you don’t have to change them all. This approach has good and bad points.

For example, if you have a standard password like B53:tg’Sot (see above) that you like to use most places (this not recommended), you may modify it by placing the first and last letter of the website around it:

Website Password www.ebay.com eB53:tg’Soty www.amazon.com aB53:tg’Sotn www.webshots.com wB53:tg’Sots Do Not Choose…

• Your name in any form — first, middle, last, maiden, spelled backwards, nickname or initials.
• Any ID number or user ID in any form, even spelled backwards.
• Part of your userid or name.
• Any common name, e.g., Sue, Joe.
• Passwords of fewer than six characters.
• The name of a close relative, friend, or pet.
• Your phone or office number, address, birthday, or anniversary.
• Acronyms, geographical or product names, and technical terms.
• Any all-numeral passwords, e.g., your license-plate number, social-security number.
• Names from popular culture, e.g., Harry_Potter, Sleepy.
• A single word either preceded or followed by a digit, a punctuation mark, up arrow, or space.
• Words or phrases with all the vowels or white spaces deleted.
• Words or phrases that do not mix upper and lower case, or do not mix letters or numbers, or do not mix letters and punctuation.
• Any word that exactly matches a word in a dictionary, forward, reversed, or pluralized, with some or all of the letters capitalized, or with any of the following substitutions:
• a -> 2, a -> 4, e -> 3, h -> 4, i -> 1, l -> 1, o -> 0, s -> $, s -> 5, z -> 5

WHY!?

If you only use words from a dictionary or a purely numeric password, a hacker only has to try a limited list of possibilities. A hacking program can try the full set in under one minute. If you use the full set of characters and the techniques above, you force a hacker to continue trying every possible combination to find yours. If we assume that the password is 8 characters long, this table shows how many times a hacker may have to before guessing your password. Most password crackers have rules that can try millions of word variants per second, so the more algorithmically complex your password, the better.

[MM 6,562]

Thanks for your ready help and patience. :thumbup

 

One more silly question from me. I guess the 14 character PW is a temporary one and can be changed to something else I should be able to remember with my atrophied brain?

 

Cheers

Yes, you can change it yourself via the My Controls thing in the upper right of the screen. In there somewhere is an option to change password and email, whatever you need.

[jacko 8,825]

You didn't fall and bang your head again did you Gonzo?

[Gonzo 419]

How to choose a password from bu.edu

 

 

General Guidelines:

So, how do you have a “strong” password that is easy to remember? While it may seem tough to do this, there are a few simple tips that can make it easy.Note: the examples below illustrate just the concepts being discussed. No single technique should be used on its own, but rather should be used with other techniques. The combination of several will produce a strong password.

• Use a mix of alphabetical and numeric characters.
• Use a mixture of upper- and lowercase; passwords are case sensitive.
• Use symbols if the system allows (spaces shouldn’t be used as some applications may trim them away)
• Use a combination of letters and numbers, or a phrase like “many colors” using only the consonants, e.g., mnYc0l0rz or a misspelled phrase, e.g., 2HotPeetzas or ItzAGurl .
• Pick something obscure:
  • an odd character in an otherwise familiar term, such as phnybon instead of funnybone;
  • a combination of two unrelated words like cementhat
  • An acronym for an easy to remember quote or phrase (see below)
  • a deliberately misspelled term, e.g., Wdn-G8 (Wooden Gate) or HersL00kn@U (Here’s looking at you).
  • Replace a letter with another letter, symbol or combination, but don’t be too obvious about it. Replacing o with 0 or a with 2 or i with 1 is something that hackers just expect. It is definitely better than nothing, but replacing 0 with () would be stronger as it makes your password longer and is not as obvious
  • An easily phonetically pronounceable nonsense word, e.g., RooB-Red or good-eits .
  • Two words separated by a non-alphabetic, non-numeric, or punctuation character, e.g., PC%Kat or dog,~1#

Choose

You want to choose something that is easy to remember with a minimum of 8 characters that uses as many of the techniques above as possible. One way to do this is to pick a phrase you will remember, pick all the first or last letters from each word and then substitute some letters with numbers and symbols. You can then apply capitals to some letters (perhaps the first and last, or second to last, etc.) You could also perhaps keep or add punctuation.

Some examples:

Phrase First Letters Password So long and thanks for all the fish” slatfatf 5L@tf@tF “Best Series Ever: Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth” bsetgsot B53:tg’Sot “You Can’t Have Everything. Where Would You Put It?” ychewwypi Uch3Wwup1?

If you are selecting a password for a website, you may want to incorporate the first few letters of the website name into your password so that every password is different and if one gets out, you don’t have to change them all. This approach has good and bad points.

For example, if you have a standard password like B53:tg’Sot (see above) that you like to use most places (this not recommended), you may modify it by placing the first and last letter of the website around it:

Website Password www.ebay.com eB53:tg’Soty www.amazon.com aB53:tg’Sotn www.webshots.com wB53:tg’Sots Do Not Choose…

• Your name in any form — first, middle, last, maiden, spelled backwards, nickname or initials.
• Any ID number or user ID in any form, even spelled backwards.
• Part of your userid or name.
• Any common name, e.g., Sue, Joe.
• Passwords of fewer than six characters.
• The name of a close relative, friend, or pet.
• Your phone or office number, address, birthday, or anniversary.
• Acronyms, geographical or product names, and technical terms.
• Any all-numeral passwords, e.g., your license-plate number, social-security number.
• Names from popular culture, e.g., Harry_Potter, Sleepy.
• A single word either preceded or followed by a digit, a punctuation mark, up arrow, or space.
• Words or phrases with all the vowels or white spaces deleted.
• Words or phrases that do not mix upper and lower case, or do not mix letters or numbers, or do not mix letters and punctuation.
• Any word that exactly matches a word in a dictionary, forward, reversed, or pluralized, with some or all of the letters capitalized, or with any of the following substitutions:
• a -> 2, a -> 4, e -> 3, h -> 4, i -> 1, l -> 1, o -> 0, s -> $, s -> 5, z -> 5

WHY!?

If you only use words from a dictionary or a purely numeric password, a hacker only has to try a limited list of possibilities. A hacking program can try the full set in under one minute. If you use the full set of characters and the techniques above, you force a hacker to continue trying every possible combination to find yours. If we assume that the password is 8 characters long, this table shows how many times a hacker may have to before guessing your password. Most password crackers have rules that can try millions of word variants per second, so the more algorithmically complex your password, the better.

Thanks for posting this brilliant article.

[Gonzo 419]

You didn't fall and bang your head again did you Gonzo?

I probably had more knocks to the head other than Joe Frasier and Cassius Clay. This time the damage was done by having a few to many during the Oktoberfest celebrations, which started early in September in Darwin.

 

Now if only someone could help me to find the my Control button to lay the PW issue to rest. It seems to be missing on my site, or I need a new pair of glasses.

 

Now

[MM 6,562]

I probably had more knocks to the head other than Joe Frasier and Cassius Clay. This time the damage was done by having a few to many during the Oktoberfest celebrations, which started early in September in Darwin.

 

Now if only someone could help me to find the my Control button to lay the PW issue to rest. It seems to be missing on my site, or I need a new pair of glasses.

 

Now

Hopefully a picture is worth a thousand words here...

In the picture below, click on the items (1)-(3) in that order, and you will see the password/email change screen.

[Gonzo 419]

Hopefully a picture is worth a thousand words here...

In the picture below, click on the items (1)-(3) in that order, and you will see the password/email change screen.

User CP - Pattaya Talk Forum.png

It worked like a charm.

Thanks for that.