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Admin can display another username
« on: December 14, 2007, 03:55:15 pm »

To prevent malicious attemps, will it be possible to have an option for the administrator to display on the gallery a different username than the one used to log in. Thank you.
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Re: Admin can display another username
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2007, 12:59:22 pm »

Using a non-trivial password that is long enough should keep you save of brute-force attacks.
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Re: Admin can display another username
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2007, 01:31:31 pm »

Is there a maximum length? I had a 11  characters password that I changed to a 27 characters long and I get an error message.
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Re: Admin can display another username
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2007, 08:46:31 am »

Afaik the max number of characters for the password field is set to 40, so you should be good. 27 chars is not needed imo, I'd go for 14 chars.
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Re: Admin can display another username
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2007, 03:13:05 pm »

Ho oupsy about that, I didn't mean to.
Thank you for your reply.
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Re: Admin can display another username
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2008, 01:50:37 am »

Apart from security (useless as explained), it can be helpfull for privacy concerns: Don't show to the general visitor that admin has uploaded that file.
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Re: Admin can display another username
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2008, 08:43:42 am »

Well, then don't name your user account "admin" or "master_of_disaster", but just "fred_jones" - nobody will then know (just by looking at the username) that a file has been uploaded by the admin. Additionally, I can't see what is suppossed to be so bad about the fact that site users can see who uploaded a file.
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Re: Admin can display another username
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2008, 12:00:03 pm »

Well, then don't name your user account "admin" or "master_of_disaster", but just "fred_jones" - nobody will then know (just by looking at the username) that a file has been uploaded by the admin. Additionally, I can't see what is suppossed to be so bad about the fact that site users can see who uploaded a file.

True, but sometimes you just don't think about it before starting, you work on the gallery and you remain with "admin" which is not very cool. For example you suggested "Master of Disaster" that I want as my username on the gallery NOW!  ;D
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Re: Admin can display another username
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2008, 10:57:31 am »

Go ahead an create another admin account that is named that way.
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