Talk about Catch22!
I signed up to this forum back in the good old SoFo days and ever since then, well all my PCs have diligently remembered my password. Gee, isn't technology great. Until a few days ago I wanted to get to this forum from a PC away from the office. Needless to say none of the passwords I thought I might have used all that time ago were correct. No dramas, wait till I get back to the office and I'll get it from there.
Well I just tried that, ha, sure my PC knows my password but it ain't going to give it up to me, oh no, I can't be trusted now can I.
OK, so this forum lets me change my password, except it insists on knowing my old password, foiled again.
More coffee and another bright idea, I can ask it to retrieve my password, just answer a few dinky questions and it'll email my password to me. No sorry, I'm already logged in, so why give me the option to retrieve a lost password, obviously I must know it to be logged in!
So finally I find a PC around here that doesn't remember my password for me, Eureka! Now I can retrieve my password, oops, no not that simple, I have to create a new password. Anyway jump through the hoops and I'm in with my now carefully forgotten password. Bit of a pain of course, I'll have to teach all the other PCs about my new password...except... it turns out the new password I selected is the same as the old one :)
What's that disease us old folks get, makes you forget things, wish I could remember its name, might make a good password.
Bob.
I signed up to this forum back in the good old SoFo days and ever since then, well all my PCs have diligently remembered my password. Gee, isn't technology great. Until a few days ago I wanted to get to this forum from a PC away from the office. Needless to say none of the passwords I thought I might have used all that time ago were correct. No dramas, wait till I get back to the office and I'll get it from there.
Well I just tried that, ha, sure my PC knows my password but it ain't going to give it up to me, oh no, I can't be trusted now can I.
OK, so this forum lets me change my password, except it insists on knowing my old password, foiled again.
More coffee and another bright idea, I can ask it to retrieve my password, just answer a few dinky questions and it'll email my password to me. No sorry, I'm already logged in, so why give me the option to retrieve a lost password, obviously I must know it to be logged in!
So finally I find a PC around here that doesn't remember my password for me, Eureka! Now I can retrieve my password, oops, no not that simple, I have to create a new password. Anyway jump through the hoops and I'm in with my now carefully forgotten password. Bit of a pain of course, I'll have to teach all the other PCs about my new password...except... it turns out the new password I selected is the same as the old one :)
What's that disease us old folks get, makes you forget things, wish I could remember its name, might make a good password.
Bob.