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If you are either of the following, please login to the left: - Newly registered
- Having login problems on commforums.com
This will create a new forum (vBulletin) and wiki (Dokuwiki) account for new users, and resolve password issues for old users. If you login here and your forums account still isn't created / fixed, please contact us at
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FAQ I changed my password. Which do I login here with? - Login here with your new password.
How often do I have to do this? Only once. - When you first create your account, or
- After an account setting change (password, email) on a Community site, or
- If you were an original member of a non-CommL4D community before the forums merge.
Why do I have to do this? - Joomla uses a one-way MD5 hash to keep passwords securely stored.
- vBulletin stores passwords using a different process involving multiple MD5 hashes.
- Dokuwiki uses another method to store passwords.
- Because the passwords are stored differently, the synchronizing software can't do its job.
Synchronizing software can't do it's job? What? - Your Community user account is transferred here every time you login to a Community site.
- Because of the different ways of storing passwords, CommForums Joomla can't give CommForums vBulletin your account.
- By logging in your account is synced with vBulletin, giving you forums access.
I still don't get it? Why do I have to go through this crap? - Hashing prevents your password from being stored in plain-text right next to your email address. How many of you used the same password on this site as your email account? Other sites using the same username?
- Hashing protects your password from hackers who hypothetically could steal the Community database.
- Hashing protects your password from Community administrators.
- Instead of having a lot of legitimate email / password combos, attackers now have to spend a lot of time using rainbow tables.
- We can't influence the development of either Joomla or vBulletin, so different hashing functions are here to stay.
What is Joomla? What is vBulletin?
- The Forum software that powers CommForums.com
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