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Links 2.0 Security system : A modification!

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Links 2.0 Security system : A modification!
Hello Bobsie!

Just saw your wonderful creation! Surprisingly I thought of this thing the first as a recall my earnings and account with linkexchange was hacked recently!

My question : Why did you add a feature ONLY ---email--- address as extra feature. Further a link ID is not so important and that is only links.db specific. If user looses this email what then?

Suggestion - Why not password protect it? That cannot be SOOOOO difficult for great guys like you, simply to add a password check routine!

However I liked your script.

Thanks

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deepy rajani

[This message has been edited by rajani (edited February 16, 1999).]
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Glad you liked the mod.

The idea behind the mod, as explained in the documentation, was to avoid the need to add another field to the database and to use what is already there.

Besides, if a link owner loses the email with the 3 itmes listed, what is to say that the password would not be lost the same way?

If I was to add a password check, then I would need to also have a lookup check in case they forgot the password. Maybe down the road I will look at it again, but I just don't have the time to do the necessary coding at this point in time.

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Bob Connors
bobsie@orphanage.com
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