Timeline for Convince people not to share their password with trusted others
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| Oct 4, 2016 at 10:32 | comment | added | Ángel | @WillihamTotland more likely, your relative would make you perform such dance for them. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 17:33 | comment | added | micheal65536 | @dotancohen Alternatively you could just generate a random password (which is hard to remember) and write it down, give it to the owner of the account, and once they've confirmed that they've got it then you can destroy your written copy (and won't remember the password because it is random). | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 10:49 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @dotancohen Password reset provides the opportunity to change it, so that the password known to the OP is no longer valid. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 10:30 | comment | added | dotancohen | @CaptainMan: If you are holding onto the new password, then what has been accomplished with a password reset? | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 7:53 | comment | added | Pierre Arlaud | @CaptainMan Wait, you mean if you give someone your password, something bad may happen to your account? | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 20:07 | comment | added | Wilhelm Erasmus | @WillihamTotland the problem is that that class of person would probably just create another account. They don't care about the TOS | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 16:22 | comment | added | Williham Totland | @CaptainMan Or don't. A dance with Facebook customer support to retrieve a lost account would be very instructive indeed. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 15:56 | comment | added | Captain Man | For the love of god if you do this please hold on to the password you set it to until they verify they are able to get into the email they have their account set up with, you could possibly permanently lock them out of something if they don't know their email password -- Usually this wouldn't be a risk but if they're the type who give everyone passwords they aren't tech savvy, and if they aren't tech savvy I assume nothing but the worst. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 13:20 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @bdsl well guess what - it's illegal to login with someone else's password to begin with. If the OP has the kind of relatives who may sue him, he should stay a mile away from them. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 13:10 | comment | added | bdsl | I think it's rude and possibly illegal to change someone else's password on a third party system without their permission, and in any case they might reset it back to the same as it was before, or something very similar. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 13:09 | comment | added | Auzias | Changing the password combined with a password reset is harmless (IMO) and educational. I like it ! | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 11:55 | history | answered | Dmitry Grigoryev | CC BY-SA 3.0 |