Passwords
 

i dont like not having the options to chose a password, and if i lose the email, then im screwed. so why dont you let us choose passwords?

They are worried people will find other people's passwords, YET THEY USE THE SAME PASSWORD FOR THE FORUMS AS GRAAL ACCOUNT.

Why don't you just write it down somewhere? Too many people are not very creative with passwords, and they are easily found out.

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If it was such a secure method more sites/games would do it, they don't.
Not to mention peoples accounts are still stolen all the time.

Agreed. So Knightmare can't complain.

Well, you know those weak-strong password detectors on websites that tell you how strong your password is? Just put one of those in and don't let people create an account with their own password unless it says "Strong"

*brags about probably being one of the few that has a custom password*

I have one. I poked Stefan and he gave me one :)

I don't readily suggest doing that though: i got lucky :p

Heh, I bugged some GP years ago back on 2.xx or whatever and he set it up for me. Pity it's only on my old account that's not upgraded.

Passwords should stay randomly generated, when people were given the option to choose their passwords they were getting stolen left and right.

There was NEVER an option to choose their own passwords, as far as I remember. I remember this because back in the day I was quite baffled at the concept of auto-generated passwords since Graal was the first I ever seen do it... and still is the only one. It could have happened while I was gone from Graal though.
I mean if brute-force is what gets all these custom passwords stolen(assuming they're just too simple), simply disallow repeated failed attempts. Otherwise it's either a really simple password that someone just happened to guess, or it's another hacking method that would still happen even to an auto-generated password.

Custom passwords won't be so bad now that you can lock your account to your computer id.

I'm fine with randomly generated password. If a site/game doesnt offer that service, I'm using a password generator to generate such a random one and use it.

Yea just write it down or something x_x

Or, better yet, don't lose your email address.

My password eats you.

bus4ETr5ce23ehevepr7ThuneTa99egEp4UCReqAWrasAbrec3 Era37xa8adreBR

At one point, that actually was my password ... except that I had to hang a little notecard from my desk, and I kept misentering it ... I changed it.

Thats why you save it in encrypted text file of course.

Or yea :)

Lyndzey gave me mine <3

I had a custom password for my old account. I remember back in the day when begging Lyndzey I think for a password change :D

But where do I store the password to the encrypted file?

Get a goddamn pen and write it on a piece of paper. Just left of my screen theres a card with all my passwords written down.

What if the mean people break in and steal the card?

TIME TO CALL GHOSTBUSTERS!

I love my randomly generated Graal password, it's really easy to memorize and stuff. :)

EDIT: Wooo, 2000 posts...

Well, before Graal had a way to create accounts on the website, Fuitad would make them and would let us choose our own passwords. We had to send him an email to create an account back then.

I used to set custom passwords for people, as long as they weren't the person's account name or something extremely obvious (I got "graal" as a request once). I do not see the huge problem with it, except if the person is using that password for everything else (email, AIM, etc). This is because if one person sends you a virus that gets your Graal password, they now have access to everything else. Unfortunately, this happened to me after I left and the person was able to get on my AIM.

I think there might be a rule against custom passwords now. I don't see why it is such a big deal to have one considering it's only a 7 character combination and isn't that difficult to memorize.