Geekhack updates: WE ARE BACK

[mintberryminuscrunch]

It says my password is wrong. And even when I type it in manually (instead of chrome autotfill) it still says it's wrong.

no passwords were transferred to the new website, so it can't be right, whatever you type!

[The_Ed]

17 tries now. mkawa or somebody else needs to MANUALLY send me a password reset email. Or just let me use my original password, which I will then change after I'm in. Whatever is easier for me to gain access.

[metafour]

Nope.

Any other ideas?

This post from Mkawa gives me little hope.


http://deskthority.net/geekhacker-refug ... tml#p58945

IDK, maybe you're banned...

[inlikeflynn]

Why couldn't I just login with my previous password and then be forced to change it with a popup? That would have been a much easier method.

The old password db got compromised during the hacks, so it would have been a risk to continue using it.
You can see this in the r00tworm txt file as part of the password hashes for vBultin are out there.

hope this is no longer an admin password

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[webwit]

No ptr record, this makes some mail servers reject mail as spam. Should be fixed by the company which handed out your ip number. Tell them you need a ptr record and give your ip number (65.111.241.203) and name (geekhack.org).

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>dig ptr 203.241.111.65.in-addr.arpa

; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P2 <<>> ptr 203.241.111.65.in-addr.arpa
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24234
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;203.241.111.65.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
203.241.111.65.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN    PTR     runt-1.uhhh.org.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
241.111.65.in-addr.arpa. 3600   IN      NS      ns1.lldc.net.
241.111.65.in-addr.arpa. 3600   IN      NS      ns2.lldc.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.lldc.net.           3600    IN      A       65.111.253.142
ns2.lldc.net.           3600    IN      A       65.124.105.6

;; Query time: 307 msec
;; SERVER: 67.19.0.10#53(67.19.0.10)
;; WHEN: Thu Jul 19 19:50:11 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 150

[metafour]

Why couldn't I just login with my previous password and then be forced to change it with a popup? That would have been a much easier method.

The old password db got compromised during the hacks, so it would have been a risk to continue using it.
You can see this in the r00tworm txt file as part of the password hashes for vBultin are out there.

hope this is no longer an admin password

Was there a disclosure about this from any of the GH mods?

I scrolled through some of the r00tw0rm release when it was first posted which seemed to indicate they got shell access. I never saw a transparent postmortem from anyone though which concerns me.

[The_Ed]

No ptr record, this makes some mail servers reject mail as spam. Should be fixed by the company which handed out your ip number. Tell them you need a ptr record and give your ip number (65.111.241.203) and name (geekhack.org).

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>dig ptr 203.241.111.65.in-addr.arpa

; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P2 <<>> ptr 203.241.111.65.in-addr.arpa
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24234
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;203.241.111.65.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
203.241.111.65.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN    PTR     runt-1.uhhh.org.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
241.111.65.in-addr.arpa. 3600   IN      NS      ns1.lldc.net.
241.111.65.in-addr.arpa. 3600   IN      NS      ns2.lldc.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.lldc.net.           3600    IN      A       65.111.253.142
ns2.lldc.net.           3600    IN      A       65.124.105.6

;; Query time: 307 msec
;; SERVER: 67.19.0.10#53(67.19.0.10)
;; WHEN: Thu Jul 19 19:50:11 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 150

So THIS is the reason I can't get into GH? If so how long does it take to fix?

[webwit]

Probably the time the ISP needs to address the support ticket + max 24 hours for dns.

[xbb]

Why couldn't I just login with my previous password and then be forced to change it with a popup? That would have been a much easier method.

The old password db got compromised during the hacks, so it would have been a risk to continue using it.

Also, It's not possible to import them to a new system if they are hashed differently.

[eth0s]

Yeah, I can't log in either. GH doesn't recognize my old password, and won't send me an email to reset a new password. So whatever, it's still busted, at least for me.

[The_Ed]

I believe I'm up to 20 tries now... If webwit is right on the missing pointer record it needs to be fixed asap. There is probably a good amount of people who still can't get in because they never receive the password reset emails that are supposedly sent.

[webwit]

We had the same problem at one point... sometimes people didn't get their activation email. I looked into it when the problem grew sometime last year. It turned out this is a mechanism to prevent spam, with growing popularity. It's a very simple reverse dns mechanism. It checks if the IP number that is sending mail from foobar at example.com is indeed affiliated with example.com. Without it, a spammer could use foobar at example.com as the from address. This might not necessarily be the solution to geekhack's problem, as I don't know how they are sending mail (maybe by 3rd party). But they definitely don't have a ptr record.

[quake4mhger]

I login with old password, read the note, change to a new password, edit profile, upload an avatar, in 5 minutes

[Parabellum]

I wish I could log in..

[megnin]

Yeah, I wish I could log in, too. I never get the email. Tried entering just username and email address. Both say an email has been sent, click the link to reset password, buy I never get the email. Checked spam folder, etc.

[kbdfr]

Had no problem logging in (several times), never got the email, though.
So I changed the password in my profile.

[mkawa]

tweaking mail settings. stand by

[ripster]

?

I had no problems logging in.

[dirge]

So images and ban list broken?

[MadScienitst46]

tweaking mail settings. stand by

works for me now!
thanks!

[Parabellum]

Really? The link in the mail just takes me right back to the authentication reminder.

[Limmy]

It works for me too. Thanks!

[MadScienitst46]

Really? The link in the mail just takes me right back to the authentication reminder.

clicking the ink didn't work for me neither, but copy/past the address did o.0

[thegunner100]

Going to "Forgot your password?" worked for me. But where's the spy?!

[Parabellum]

Really? The link in the mail just takes me right back to the authentication reminder.

clicking the ink didn't work for me neither, but copy/past the address did o.0

Thanks!

[webwit]

"Users active in past 60 minutes"

It's showing double the amount of users "online" compared to the old geekhack, where this was an already generous 30 minutes.

[thegunner100]

Would be nice if we could get a bigger editting box. The current one is pretty tiny =/

[rknize]

You can also just go into your profile and change your password there. If you are still having issues getting access due to missing emails/etc, shoot me, mkawa, or alaricljs a PM here on DT.

[mintberryminuscrunch]

Going to "Forgot your password?" worked for me. But where's the spy?!

That worked for me, thx

[The_Ed]

Thanks for the manual reset mkawa. I guess comcast doesn't like the missing pointer record.