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Authored by: Jason on Tuesday, November 06 2001 @ 10:26 am EST

THis is a hot topic, but while I have my fire-proof undies on I'll add fuel to the fire.

GeekLog is the best for doing what it does. It's simple, quick and secure. In it's entire history it's only had one compromise (a long itme ago) which a was NON ROOT LEVEL compromise (steeling of hashed passwords, big whoop!) and is was fixed in less than 10 minutes. :-)

PhpWebSite is something I check out every some often, it's nice. PhpNuke just sucks. Crash and Burn baby! :-) Both are a PhpThatWare fork/child.

Slash and Scoop are huge, slow and written in perl (could explain the huge and slow). But they are well tested and mature.

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Authored by: Falkware on Wednesday, November 07 2001 @ 01:53 am EST

In respect of Slash, I'd be bold to state that Slashcode is the mother of all weblogs. It's age is showing and PHP has proven to be a better language for this kind of web system. When a server admin then adds ZEND to the equation it's hard to find arguments NOT to use GeekLog for a website as it's core.

I run GeekLog on Falkware.com. The site started out small like any site, but now we're growing fast. The interesting thing is that GeekLog is holding up good so far. Logging over 500,000 pageviews last month there's very little to complain about. Considering the amount of attacks we get on the site, it has yet to be compromised.

I can point out that some users are rather upset about the password system. Someone wanting to cause grief only needs to know the persons username to actually get a password reset and a new one randomly generated.

I think this are could use some re-thinking. A statement about implementing verification pages on actions like delete was was also made, but I've yet to see those.

I'm excited about the access and plugin system in 1.3. I think Tony, Mark and the guys are doing a tremendous job on making GeekLog better, and Falkware.com will continue to grow in the veil of GeekLog.

I do think user support could be perfected, which has little to do with actual software.

I can once more ask for custom timezone setup, a brand new link system (or use something sufficient) and that common sense be used on msg board integration. In other words... make it assimilate with the system. Use the boxes on the sides to display latest posts and so on...

Many ways to go...Lots to think about...

Further I'd like to THANK mark limburg for setting up this new site. Once the logo is reworked it's a great first impression!

Flame Bait

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, November 07 2001 @ 05:26 pm EST

I have to agree with you about the password part. A user should confirm/activate their account through a link passed in an email to them, before the password is changed, or even before the account is activated.

Password Reset

Authored by: MLimburg on Thursday, November 08 2001 @ 02:56 pm EST

How does this sound:

anon user requests new password on account name
email is sent to account owner
email contains link to script on site, which uses an emailed variable of md5(username.password_hash) variable
if emailed variable matches md5MD5(username.password_hash), then allow person to enter a new md5'ed password

Sound workable?

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