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Article #968Demon Account Passwords - a reminder.
From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:00
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With the introduction of our Homepages service, it is appropriate to issue a reminder to all our customers about passwords. Your password it your key to your account. Please treat your password carefully, in the same way as you would a bank PIN number. Choose your password carefully. Do not use common words or words that can be easily guessed. Choose something you can remember and try not to write it down. Never reveal your password to anyone else. Demon Internet staff will never ask you for your password. Our systems will only require you to enter your password as follows; to log on to the service; to access your batchftp files; to access your www homepages; in the process of changing you password. [Note - Technical support staff may have asked customers for passwords in the past. To improve security, this practice has now been stopped.] Never consider 'lending' your password to others to try the service. Do not give your password to someone so they can for example, work on your www homepages. You are responsible for any activity carried out from your account. Your password is your protection from your account being abused by others. If you suspect your password has been compromised, you must change it immediately. To change your password, use a telnet application and 'telnet' to 'password.demon.co.uk'. You will be prompted through the process of setting a new password. If you forget or lose your password, no one at Demon can tell you what it is. In these circumstances, support will (after a strict verification process) reset your password to something new. Please change any password set by Demon in this manner as soon as possible. Malcolm Muir Demon Internet -- Malcolm S. Muir Demon Internet Ltd. Sunderland 322 Regents Park Road England London N3 2QQ
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112c0c,d199f24a93e98a63,start X-Google-Attributes: gid112c0c,public From: malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net (Malcolm Muir) Subject: Demon Account Passwords - a reminder. Date: 1996/07/31 Message-ID: <31ffa67f.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net> X-Deja-AN: 171273103 x-nntp-posting-host: muir-et2.staff.demon.net followup-to: demon.service organization: Demon Internet Ltd. reply-to: internet@demon.net newsgroups: demon.announce