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Guest Humpty Dumpty
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I forgot my dial-up password. Where is it stored?

TIA

Humpty

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Guest Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]
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Re: Dial-up password

 

Not anywhere that you can recover it. You'll need to contact your ISP to

have your password reset.

 

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"Humpty Dumpty" <sorry@antispam.net> wrote in message

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>I forgot my dial-up password. Where is it stored?

> TIA

> Humpty

>

>

Guest 3c273
Posted

Re: Dial-up password

 

You can use a Ethereal (WireShark) to sniff it if you have it saved but

don't know what it is.

Louis

 

"Humpty Dumpty" <sorry@antispam.net> wrote in message

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> I forgot my dial-up password. Where is it stored?

> TIA

> Humpty

>

>

Guest VanguardLH
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Re: Dial-up password

 

Humpty Dumpty wrote:

> I forgot my dial-up password. Where is it stored?

 

In your ISP's customer records.

 

Call them to have them reset your password, use it to login, and then

change it again to whatever you want.

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Re: Dial-up password

 

 

"Humpty Dumpty" <sorry@antispam.net> wrote in message

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>I forgot my dial-up password. Where is it stored?

> TIA

> Humpty

>

>

It could be stored in:

1) your router's internal memory (if you have a router that is)

2) a piece of paper somewhere on your desk which you wrote the password on

3) a file on your computer which contains significant passwords in plain

text (not a good idea, but people do that)

4) the password file on your isp's computer (this is quite certain)

You should contact your isp to get your password (in their password file)

reset.

Reset it again so that you are the only person who knows the password. This

time, don't forget it again.

Jim


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