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I'm logged in as "www" right now.



Funny enough, that is exactly how I found the problem. I created a www account (I am almost ashamed to say that was my first instinct, try to break the system before you decide the system is worthy of your use). I ended up logging out and I couldn't log back in with the same password. In hindsight, someone must have created another www account after I did and before I tried to login again. I then tried creating another www account and it worked. I then logged out and tried registering with a different username twice just in case www was a special case. The same thing happened, the second account just replaced the first account.


> I am almost ashamed to say that was my first instinct, try to break the system before you decide the system is worthy of your use

I am proud to say that's always my first impulse when thrust into security-related circumstances.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_m...


haha I created www account, too.


Sorry, I probably overwrote your stuff :/


Ah, that explains why my password stopped working ;)




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