[wp-hackers] Possible security patch

Ian Stewart ian at themeshaper.com
Mon Dec 7 13:20:41 UTC 2009


I'm for prompting the user to start another account AND no longer suggesting
admin be the user name.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:

> Mark Jaquith wrote:
> > I think I have a better method of tackling this issue: We now prompt
> > the user in the wp-admin when they are using the default install
> > password or a reset password. What about if we do a similar prompt if
> > "admin" is the only user on the blog, suggesting that they create a
> > second user name and use THAT for posting?
>
> What about simply asking the user about renaming 'admin' to something more
> personal?
>
> Ozh
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