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Topic Started: Jun 3 2007, 06:28 PM (535 Views)
President Dave
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Is it illegal for the root administrator of an InvisionFree board to change forum member's passwords and announce them to the rest of the board?

Because the root administrator on the forum that I am now banned from changed my password, and then posted all my private messages in the announcements section of that forum.
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President Dave
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Wait- is this even the right place to ask this? If yes, I apologize.
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Ardy-ZNS
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Root administrator reserves the right to do anything he wishes with the board. Not that it's right but that's how society goes nowadays.
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FinalKiller0
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http://beta.zetaboards.com/support/index/

I don't know if it is illegal or not, but that is out right mean.

It probably isn't, but if it isn't, something should be done about it.

Wait, does ZB have the function so the root admin can change passwords?
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Christian
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FinalSlayer0
June 3, 2007 06:32 PM
Wait, does ZB have the function so the root admin can change passwords?

Nope, Brandon probably took that into consideration so admins can't change other people's passwords.
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President Dave
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Well, our board is a regional forum for a region - Nova Atlantica - in NationStates (www.nationstates.net). The root admin, Sedge, was running for President and lost. He then snapped, banned A LOT of people from the region and forums, and changed some people's passwords and announced their private messages in the Announcements section of our board.

The majority of the region - including myself - was outraged and kinda went nuts. We did use a lot of profanity and insults in our fights.

Our forum is located at: http://s4.invisionfree.com/novaatlantica

By the way...why were admins given the ability to change member's passwords anyway?
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Ben
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June 3, 2007 07:22 PM
FinalSlayer0
June 3, 2007 06:32 PM
Wait, does ZB have the function so the root admin can change passwords?

Nope, Brandon probably took that into consideration so admins can't change other people's passwords.

Actually, it just hasn't been added in yet.

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By the way...why were admins given the ability to change member's passwords anyway?

The most practical reason is in case someone forgets his or her password and can no longer access his or her account. Sometimes email recovery won't work (not a valid email address, can't access that email account anymore, etc.). If there were no other method of changing the password, then people would lose access to that account forever.
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FinalKiller0
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Can there not be a random password generator so the Admin won't know what it is? Kind of like in Yahoo when you use hthe password recovery, they give you a random password which is the password.
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Ben
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FinalSlayer0
June 3, 2007 09:34 PM
Can there not be a random password generator so the Admin won't know what it is? Kind of like in Yahoo when you use hthe password recovery, they give you a random password which is the password.

Good suggestion. Except, how do you give the random password to the person? You can't send it via email, because if he or she could access the account's email address then he or she would use email recovery.

The administrator could change the account's email address. But even if we removed the ability to change one's password, if we leave the ability to change the email address then the administrator could just change the email to his or her address and initiate a password recovery.

So we would have to remove the administrator's ability to edit both email addresses and passwords, which would mean that if anyone loses access to his or her account, then he or she would have to contact InvisionFree. And have you seen how far behind we are on restorations? :-/

Ultimately, you have to trust that the owner of the board isn't going to change your password. If you don't trust him or her to respect your privacy, then why are you on the board in the first place? That's just masochistic. Go some place where you trust people!
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