Posts made by technobabble

We use WHM/cPanel for our hosting. At the moment, you can't change your own password unless you know the original (useless for those who forgot the password). According to cPanel support, they will be adding it soon.

@Dashrender That is correct.

@Dashrender We build websites and offer hosting services, which means we setup the email accounts and such....which means creating passwords for users.

@Dashrender I have this happen a lot with clients. Their email is hacked with a strong password I create, I send them a new one and the next day the hack starts again. They clean the PC of Malware and magically the hack stops.

I guess if its a keylogger it can't read your screen, LOL.

Ok...so instead of sharing a LastPass account, perhaps each client should setup an account.

Side note question:
If the person's workstation is compromised will it matter if you send a password in secure email?

Good points, I'll have to see what else I can come up with. I will say smaller shops with 1-10 user can be exaperating bunch to try and support.

Last quarter I moved away from various unsecure means of keeping track of passwords for myself, my business and my clients.

I added secure inc to my Outlook to send passwords securely as well as using LastPass to hold all my passwords.

Some clients don't want to have to signup for LastPass to receive their password and I don't want to have to share passwords via the phone because that is annoying when it doesn't work for them because they wrote it down wrong 10 times.

So I found that I could share passwords via LastPass and choose if they get to see the password or not. I am considering keeping all my client's information there and each website user login and webmail/email password will be shared with each separate user. This will help keep me sane and maybe they will not feel the need to write down the password.

Any flaws in this plan?

Ditto here...the version seems to be pretty stable.

@scottalanmiller pretty much what I thought.

Why is the Mac being held like that?

I love the support/web dev companies that contact me with no opt out using gmail accounts. They change the from address each time but not the sales pitch.

@MattSpeller said:

Printer issues? When in doubt....

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@GregoryHall does that also work for remote desktop users?

@scottalanmiller I agree...and my simpler reasoning is:

Because your clients will be using said new fangled products and you look like an idiot if you don't know how to use the lastest software, especially if it's a brand new OS. Which is why I have been demoing W10.

@milnesy

I have had to follow this type of procedure I believe called "side-loading" explained here: http://www.gizmag.com/how-to-install-google-apps-kindle-fire-hd-hdx/30736/

Since moving websites to WP and becoming mostly a WP shop, I haven't had to touch databases or export except for backups (weekly) and moving sites from one host to another which only happens when I move a client to my hosting.

@g.jacobse Thanks bud, I knew I could do that. Now that my head is clearer this morning, I remembered that I have done exports before without any issues to existing data.

@scottalanmiller Thanks...I didn't think so, but with this client, I had to be 100% sure.

I have a plugin for WordPress that is using about 20GB of space. The plugin saves form data from the workers in the field. Natively I can delete the 3 years of old data, but there is no way in the WP admin to export or backup the data before deletion.

If you use phpmyadmin to export data, that data is still on there server correct? I want to use the export to csv for Excel to backup the data before deletion.

@Minion-Queen bing, bing, bing!