Can you check your user name?

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Can you do me a huge favor? For those of you that frequent the forums, I need you to make sure that your user profile name is not your email address.
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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I just went to your alternate link to check, and got this message.

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this admin page.

Reason: The current user doesn’t have the “read” capability that is required to access the “Profile” menu item.

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https://www.askwoody.com/wp-admin/profile.php

So that doesn’t work for you?

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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I think account page is the one for normal users
https://www.askwoody.com/account/
https://www.askwoody.com/account/edit-account/

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Cee Arr

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Hmmm it doesn’t for me.  I think the best is still to hover over the upper right side at the top to see if the email address is expose.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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abbodi86 wrote:

I think account page is the one for normal users

That page is related to the sub-system that manages the newsletter subscriptions, @abbodi86. It doesn’t link to the Lounge accounts 🙂

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https://www.askwoody.com/wp-admin/profile.php

Works for me. At least for the /Personal Options\ tab. If I click on the /Customer Data\ tab I do get a permissions denied error message.

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/users/eyesonwindows/

That’s what I see when I hover over my EyesOnWindows username in the upper right above the blue Log Out button while logged in.

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Kirsty

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All OK here, Susan.

Nothing appears near my user name when I hover the mouse pointer over it, the only thing that appears is at the bottom left hand corner of my screen above the Windows 10 taskbar and it says: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/users/carl-d/

Using Firefox 85.0.2 64bit

I see the same thing when I sign in with Edge (new Chromium version).

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Yep. That is the way to check. Simply hover over your screen name and see the link which is shown in your web browser’s popup for the link URL.

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Carl D

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I have been using my email to log in for a while due to a glitch some time ago that made it hard logging in with usernames. I checked out your question by signing in with my username and then email. In both cases the username was correctly shown.

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Susan Bradley wrote:

For those of you that frequent the forums, I need you to make sure that your user profile name is not your email address.

I’m good (I think).

Thanks for your concern.

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No problem. However, just how secure is WordPress and Kali Forms?  Both have access to this information.  WordPress I am aware of – not so Kali Forms.  I ask the question as ‘askwoody’ is the only forum I am registered with.

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The issue is having your email on each post, making it easy for spammers to scrape.

cheers, Paul

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Kirsty

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Kaliforms is just a plug in we use for the anonymous tips for Brian Livingston. It doesn’t harvest email addresses.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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[plodr]

I’m good. plodr is my username at almost all the places I frequent.

The login page should remove email as an option.

The first line says username or email. It should be username, don’t use email address.

Got coffee?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by plodr. Reason: wrong word

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This mainly occurs from accounts imported from Windows Secrets Newsletter subscriptions, so barely affects those who created an AskWoody account personally.

We’ve been actively monitoring this since WSN/WSL merged, and despite the few who have pushed back defiantly, many, many Loungers have already made the change.

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Microfix

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Another remote probability is that the user name is not in fact the user’s current email address. My late brother-in-law had several on-line ids that had been established when sites required signing up with an email address. Over time he did change addresses, but there was no provision for changing the sign-on. This confounded me when I was eradicating his on-line existences.

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All replies gone? 🙂

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No just hiccups on the site.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Charlie, abbodi86

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Checked, my profile name is not my email address.

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