Here's what happened: I asked Jimbo or Jason to create dumps of the current database so that I could load it into the new server for testing the transition. I expected to have them copied directly to the new server as Jim had done before (and to which only the Bomis folks, me, and Axel have access at the moment), but Jason put them in the upload directory instead.

I have since moved them to the new server already, so they can be deleted--but I don't have access to the old server, so Jason will have to do that.

I raised the security issue of plaintext passwords in the database a few months ago; it was generally agreed that it was not a good thing (any sysop can already read the database, passwords and all), but that changing it in the existing code was a pain. The new code encrypts passwords in the database, and has a "mail me a new password" function.

TBC, I removed your password for you. I suspect the problem with your passphrase may have been the single quote character. Try a long passphrase without it. 0