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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | About half an hour ago, I came across a forum that disabled guest searching. For some reason, my attention turned to the login box. I simply typed in the username and password 'test' and bingo - it worked! And I did my search. Then I started to think - there must be other forum admins with test accounts. Now a user account typically can't do more than completley spam your forum <which is quite easy to clean with a click of the magic "delete all posts by this user" button>, but if, for example, you were testing moderator/administrator accounts on your forum, and your test account had a simple-to-guess password with mod/admin rights - then some nasty person could wreck havoc on your forum. So, secure those test accounts! Just put a password which isn't easy to guess on them, or simply delete the account when you're done testing.
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| Just keeping it real ![]() ![]() ![]() | If they were smart I am sure that the test account only has viewing permissions only, no posting privileges.
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