Administrator reset my password?

OrlonKronsteen

So I tried to login and got a message that an administrator had likely reset my password. Did this occur automatically? Is it something that's happening to multiple users? I'm in now, obviously, but I am curious about what happened.

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Bubb

Don't know what happened, but I can confirm that it happened to me as well. Reset my password and it resolved itself... very weird indeed.

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Arvia

Ah, I was just going to ask if something was wrong with my account. Glad to know it's a system thing.

Aedan

Same here.

JuliusBorisov

It should have been an automated request, by Vanilla. We haven't done anything specific.

spacejaws

Yea just had to reset my password. Kinda wierd.

Tresset

It is happening to the moderators as well, so I can assure you it isn't something we did. Another one of Vanilla's wild surges...

mlnevese

It's system wide. Probably Vanilla changed something in the roles function that forced a reset.

megamike15

it happen to me just now. i thought i did something wrong even tho i have not.

Aerakar

Same here. Always makes me wonder if a data breach happened.

Grond0

I thought maybe it was making the password protocol mandatory - my old password was rejected for use again as being too simple ...

mlnevese

It's times like this that make me glad I use a password manager

bob_veng

Thanks Julius for sorting out my account problem.

Ardanis

Grond0 wrote: »

I thought maybe it was making the password protocol mandatory - my old password was rejected for use again as being too simple ...

Software developers should learn already that if people are fine with weak passwords, then they're fine with it and that's the end of discussion. Like maybe because the benefit of not having to remember or write down a complex password dramatically outweighs the possibility of the account getting hacked.
"Protecting" people from themselves all over again, what a cancer.

mlnevese wrote: »

It's times like this that make me glad I use a password manager

Those come with their risks though, like putting all eggs into single basket.

mlnevese

Ardanis wrote: »

Grond0 wrote: »

I thought maybe it was making the password protocol mandatory - my old password was rejected for use again as being too simple ...

Software developers should learn already that if people are fine with weak passwords, then they're fine with it and that's the end of discussion. Like maybe because the benefit of not having to remember or write down a complex password dramatically outweighs the possibility of the account getting hacked.
"Protecting" people from themselves all over again, what a cancer.

mlnevese wrote: »

It's times like this that make me glad I use a password manager

Those come with their risks though, like putting all eggs into single basket.

Actually you can have an encrypted local database... Make it a sha256 or better encryption and good luck to anyone trying to break your database

Ardanis

It's not someone else breaking it that concerns me

mlnevese

Well forgetting your master password would be a huge trouble to say the truth

bob_veng

write it on a piece of paper and put it on the wall. just camouflage into some other piece of information such as a phone number or an appointment, a restaurant flyer etc.

Permidion_Stark

I would just like to add my thanks to @JuliusBorisov for sorting out my password problems.

Tresset

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/77519/password-reset-info-and-recovering-your-account

Blackbɨrd

Had the same thing just happen.