Re: Invalid username/password Error Message
From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 10/26/04
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:27:45 -0700
P. Jayant wrote:
> 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
Did you not see my answer to you when you first posted this? Search on
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Malke
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