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No need to remember passwords: keep them in this handy log book

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  • M Mark_Wallace

    Perhaps unbelievably, I do know how to use a computer, so I use three somethings similar at home (I subdivide the contexts that you suggest clumping together), but it's more the "change passwords every 35 minutes and never use a letter that you have used in a previous password" cr@p that I protest against. For example, the app used to book time off. Any normal person uses such an app every couple of months. They demand a fresh password every month, so you have to change password every time you open the fruggin' thing -- and you can't use anything resembling any of your last twelve passwords! Hence the text file. **** 'em.

    I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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    I've just tried to access my very first GMail account, and can't remember the password. Google's password policies aren't the issue, it's their password reset policies. I see on my current Google Apps mail accounts I can just reset my password my getting a code via SMS, and one of these accounts is still using POP3 to pull mail out of the old GMail account, but I have tried and tried, and there seems to be no way I answer the questions correctly, except the name of my 1st teacher, which myself and a few hundred people I know, know well. But, was it "Mrs", "mrs", "mrs.", etc? As to the dates I created or last used the account, anybodies guess.

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      Just curious, what is your IP address?

      I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey

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      Le'ssee... Ah. 127.0.0.1

      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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      • B Brady Kelly

        I've just tried to access my very first GMail account, and can't remember the password. Google's password policies aren't the issue, it's their password reset policies. I see on my current Google Apps mail accounts I can just reset my password my getting a code via SMS, and one of these accounts is still using POP3 to pull mail out of the old GMail account, but I have tried and tried, and there seems to be no way I answer the questions correctly, except the name of my 1st teacher, which myself and a few hundred people I know, know well. But, was it "Mrs", "mrs", "mrs.", etc? As to the dates I created or last used the account, anybodies guess.

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        Hmm. Dunno. Google keeps asking me for my phone number, but I won't give it to them, so the SMS thing wouldn't work for me. It asks me every time I install or upgrade apps on my three mobile devices, so it's an annoying intrusion that is poisoning the waters of android for me.

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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