[Savannah-hackers] [ 100218 ] What happened?

[nobody]

Support Request #100218, was updated on 2001-Nov-29 14:12
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Category: Web
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Summary: What happened?

By: alex
Date: 2001-Nov-29 14:15

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=319
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)

I've just found out that my real username is "a13x". How 
did I managed to login as "alex", then, using the same 
password?

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By: alex
Date: 2001-Nov-29 14:12

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=319
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)

Hello,

My name is Alex, and I'm registered user here,
my full name is Aleksandar Radulovic.

I forgot my username here, so I used an username
"alex" with the password I remembered, and I
successfully logged in into account "alex".

To my surprise, the account "alex" is owned by
Alexander Langer, who is definitelly not me.
Now, how did this happened and what's going on?

Since I forgot my original account (which I still
believe is in fact "alex"), I cannot provide you
with any detail about it except my email address:
address@hidden - if you search through your users
database, you will definitelly find it.

Also, I would like to know the following:
If my username is NOT "alex", how then I managed
to login to that account using my password? (I'm 
writting this request with that account)
Concidence of someone having the same first name,
similar username and the SAME password is extremelly 
small, even impossible!


If my username IS "alex", I would like an explanation 
how my username stays with different Account 
information - totally different name, email address 
and everything).

How is it then possible for someone to takeover my 
account?

I have many more questions regarding this subject, but 
I would like answers to these questions here before I 
ask more.

Important: please send me an answer to address@hidden, 
I would like to recieve it that way.

Best regards,
Aleksandar Radulovic
address@hidden


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