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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:00:25 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: ecs site login failing

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> >Not according to the original purchase notification from Mensys. I
> >thought I had tried every possibility a couple times at least by now, but
> >hey -- I'm game to have another go at it.

Steven Levine wrote:

> It's starting to sound as if you are a victim of a youthful form of senior
> moment.

I would prefer to call it a "memory disagreement."

> The IDs provided by the resellers have never been site login IDs,
> unless one happens to chooses to use the same semi-random string of
> characters as your login ID.

It was my impression that this Reseller-sent info (also) pertained to how one must
login initially, in order to be recognized, but that this could be changed after the
fact. Inertia being what it is, most people would probably not bother to make a
change.

Anyway, how well do you recall choices you made 'En passant' over a year ago, if you
didn't happen to write it down and store it some place where you had a decent chance
of finding it again ? (I admit to not being particularly well organized.) One thing
I _should have_ done was park the info in KR2, which I have a license for but don't
use often enough. The filing cabinet would be nice too, but filing here is running a
lot farther behind than I'm willing to say.

Things did work out, however. Thanks for that clue, Steven. I could have sworn it
failed a few times before, but last night I was able to bring up the Verification
Question, answer it with no problem, and now I have access again. I may even roll the
dice once more, and try the 1.1 level site registration. (But WHY should I do this,
if there's any chance it could zero things out again ?)

While we're at it, I would like to have a better idea where such Login info resides,
locally. It does not seem to be there in COOKIES.TXT, and I haven't ID'd any file
that collects the passwords stored by Mozilla's Password Manager. The most likely
candidate seems to be a one-off file I found with a name like 12345678.S and
contents like

#2c
.
http://www.ecomstation.com
user
~wL83j4nfq1
*pass
~pYMcfBhnOztx==
.

which is obviously some form of encryption. There is also a similarly named file, but
it has individual entries with dotted decimal addresses, and seems to be geared to
sites where you have ordered something online, and provided the site with
identification & shipping info, etc. This is one example of where I'd like to
understand how the mechanism works. In a past experiment, I tried copying these files
to the same Mozilla directory on the Shuttle, where they seem to have no effect at
all. Possibly there is some sort of indexing at work here, which makes them
non-transferable.

Jordan

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