Invalid username/password Error Message

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From: P. Jayant (pjayant_at_sancharnet.in)
Date: 10/26/04


Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:31:56 +0530

I sometimes get error messages while trying to connect to my I S P.
1) Invalid username or password and
2) Server busy or unable to connect
Are these messages standard in Internet Protocols and are there fixed
procedures for sending or generating these messages? Who initiates them?
My computer or the I S P Server?
If the Server is Busy and the error message says "invalid username or
password", it unnecessarily leads to panic because the user wonders if the
Internet Account has been hacked and might unnecessarily change the
password.
On occasions, I try to check with the I S P Helpdesk when I get the error
Message, and they say the Server is temporarily busy or maintenance. Later,
the connection gets established with the same old username and password.

It is interesting to observe the invalid password message comes up only when
if I use the password saved by Windows XP. If I key in my password, erasing
the
saved password (which happens to have far more characters than those
selected by me), the password is accepted and the connection is established
without flaw.
Does this mean that the corruption in the saved password (which is encoded)?
How does one correct the corruption in generating the encoded password which
has many more characters (asterisks) than my original password.
P. Jayant



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