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  15     <B>Imran Ali Rashid</B>
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  19     <I>Sun Mar 18 17:14:01 PST 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i> One month ago I was asking about a SENDPASS command in NickServ.
  35 </I>&gt;<i> Some people from the list replyed that it is not possible to send the password
  36 </I>&gt;<i> as long as the encryption is not reversible.
  37 </I>&gt;<i> But Lonewolf pointed out that would be nice to make services reset the
  38 </I>&gt;<i> password (/*to some rand chars*/) and send it to user.
  39 </I>
  40 How about having it if encryption isn't used and changing the password if it is?
  41 There was a discussion on this and its on Andrew's todo list.
  42 I've forgotten what was suggested as regards to allowing the user to use this,
  43 or only the services admins.
  44
  45 &gt;<i> But this is just a half of the problem. The other half is that a
  46 </I>&gt;<i> password-thief will change the email address as soon as he has the password
  47 </I>&gt;<i> for a nick...so any new passwords will be sent to a wrong address. This is the
  48 </I>&gt;<i> reason I was talking about a parallel db read-only for regular users...
  49 </I>
  50 How about having the email address(the old one) in the log file instead of having a
  51 separate db. Anything to stop from having another db :-)
  52
  53 &gt;<i> When to insert a new email? Only at registration time? And what to do with
  54 </I>&gt;<i> users changeing email address? etc).
  55 </I>
  56 this is the only issue currently associated with the new db idea, the rest are easy to avoid.
  57
  58 &gt;<i> It's a long story...that's why I sayd it may sound stupid...but I guess there
  59 </I>&gt;<i> are others too who have this kind of problems with stolen nicks.
  60 </I>
  61 Stupid is not a nice word to use :-)
  62 Nothing is stupid, well almost nothing, and this doesn't come under it.
  63
  64 &gt;<i>
  65 </I>&gt;<i> Partizanu
  66 </I>&gt;<i>
  67 </I>&gt;<i>
  68 </I>&gt;<i> Imran Ali Rashid wrote:
  69 </I>&gt;<i>
  70 </I>&gt;<i> &gt; 2. Implement a sendpass command which services admins may use to
  71 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;     have services send the password to the users email address.
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