Unique password for the admin panel

Dec

2010

Hello everybody Very Happy

Today, I want to suggest this feature for forums. It's a unique password for the admin panel.

Currently we can put the option "Confirm password to administration access" in:

PA => General => Securiy => Confirm password to administration access => Yes.

But, in this situation, if a hacker, "hack" (find our password) our forum, he/she can access to the admin panel, and do a "total destruction" in our forum. So, the suggestion is a new feature in PA => General => Security, a proposed name would be "Unique password for the admin panel".

The role would be, they have a unique password to access the administration panel, and without this password, the "hacker" can't access to the admin panel. Obviously, the administrator founder inform to the co-admins this password.

I think this is all. I think isn't necesary to tell, that the password can change the admin fundator of the forum.

I don't know if I have expressed well... You can tell me the dudes or comentarys (:

Bye.

1 invisible_fa, on 11/12/2010 at 21h29

Yeah, this would be a good way to limit the access to an important place like the ACP, and protect our forums as much as possible against an attacker.

2 Caihlem, on 12/12/2010 at 00h31

No way

Because then, all the "hacker" has to do is get a lucky guess or whatever.
Added to that, if the password isn't personal, some people tend to have their tongues less loose then it should be

Too dangerous in my opinion

3 mpelmmc, on 12/12/2010 at 00h36

Caihlem wrote:No way

Because then, all the "hacker" has to do is get a lucky guess or whatever.
Added to that, if the password isn't personal, some people tend to have their tongues less loose then it should be

Too dangerous in my opinion

This I suggest, will be a second password. We will have the normal option (Confirm password to administration access) and this.

But the password I say, only know the admins of the forum, and if you put an admin, at least I trust him geek

4 mpelmmc, on 24/12/2010 at 00h10

Bump.

5 Center, on 24/12/2010 at 19h49

Hello

I am vote yes!
this was suggested in the Spanish forum and we all like xD

Greetings

6 KingOfSports, on 24/12/2010 at 20h38

Think about the current number of people who can't remember their password. If we add this feature, that number will double.

7 harold, on 02/01/2011 at 20h44

@ KingOfSports , i don't think its that people can't remember the password , there seems to be a fault somewhere in the forum makeup judging by the number of people who cannot get into their forum's including myself , when i setup the forum as with all sites i always write my signin name and passwords into a book

8 Beno, on 04/01/2011 at 15h55

I don't think this would be very practical. The support forum receives hundreds of PM's a day about lost founder passwords and this would only increase the work load for the staff that have access to the tools to reset there admin panel.

Voted No

9 I Mozilla I, on 04/01/2011 at 17h35

Would be good protection, but as said before. The number of people which lose their passwords would atleast double.

Voted no.

10 mpelmmc, on 08/01/2011 at 13h44

Bump ^^

11 Hoops, on 08/01/2011 at 19h58

If people could remember their passwords then it wouldn't be a bad idea

12 mpelmmc, on 22/01/2011 at 13h57

Bump

13 Base, on 22/01/2011 at 19h51

I can see the logic behind this idea, but I don't support it. I've voted no. Purely because people would forget their passwords twice as much and that it wouldn't really "protect" your forum better...

Just be careful of who you choose as your administrators and you'll be fine. Wink

14 gedel aray, on 29/01/2011 at 16h30

oh..i lost my password

15 Harperboy326, on 29/01/2011 at 19h16

Base wrote:Just be careful of who you choose as your administrators and you'll be fine.

That is the best way you can protect your forum. Just watch who you make administrator, and like Base said, you'll be fine.

I think if you can't remember your password, and you have to have it reset by Typlo or MrMario, you shouldn't have another password to remember. Typlo is busy enough, he doesn't need a another work load of password resets.

=> Vote: No

gedel aray wrote:oh..i lost my password

You will not get any support here. This is not the correct section. Wink

16 HeroUltraOmega, on 02/02/2011 at 16h28

gedel aray wrote:oh..i lost my password

Well now that doesn't sound good... i don't think i can help you with that though... albino

17 mpelmmc, on 25/02/2011 at 16h46

Bump

18 ToTheFuture, on 04/03/2011 at 18h07

Very smart. Very Happy

19 mpelmmc, on 10/03/2011 at 22h05

Bump

20 !_NICK_!, on 11/03/2011 at 07h09

I'm not so sure about this though. I like it, but I don't. I won't vote because I'm not sure. Sorry though.