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Lost password to my HN account - how do I reset/where is forgot password?
I must be missing something here...
- mixmax 17y agoIf you entered an e-mail into your account you send a mail to PG, and he'll mail you your password. If you didn't enter an e-mail into your account your new username is needsomehelp :-)
- brown9-2 17y agoI guess I will be brown9-2 from now on then... thanks.
- kirubakaran 17y agoWhat was your original username?
- brown9-2 17y agobrown9
- trickjarrett 17y agoHe'll mail us our password? Are our passwords not encrypted?
- nuclear_eclipse 17y agoCorrect; let's not get into this discussion again so soon..
- wizard_2 17y agoI'm a pretty avid reader of this site and I haven't seen the discussion here yet. (Can't read everything I guess.) But I don't like that fact one bit. What's pg's email? What's the best way to contact him?
- TallGuyShort 17y agoAs mentioned in other replies, you should probably always assume that you alone have the responsibility for your password security.
- pert 17y agoI can't seem to reply to wizard_2's post (I guess it's a designed limit) so here's the post which spawned the encrypted password discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595231 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595231
- trickjarrett 17y agoThanks for the info link. The inability to reply is the time delay feature pg put in, where the deeper a thread goes the longer it goes before people can respond. Still toying with it as far as I know.
- pg 17y agoIncorrect; I mail them a new password.
- nuclear_eclipse 17y agoThank you for the correction. Perhaps I bailed out of the last discussion too soon to see the truth, rather than the assumptions and associated whinging.
- wizard_2 17y agoCan you mail me a password for the account reconbot - it was my old hc account, I'd love to get it back.
- brown9-2 17y agoIt seems like the login page supports OpenID now, although I can't really seem to figure out how to associate my account with an OpenID
- chanux 17y agoThat's news.