{"id":490,"date":"2010-07-01T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T18:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/?p=490"},"modified":"2010-07-01T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T18:25:33","slug":"password-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/archives\/490","title":{"rendered":"Password Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my computer screen was locked at work today, and when I tried to unlock it it decided it was time for me to change my password. That’s not such a big deal – it’s just a case of trying to think of a password which isn’t the same as any of my last 30 passwords, contains upper- and lower-case letters, numbers and “special characters”, and which I can remember. However, I’ve done this before, and I seem to remember it wasn’t quite that simple…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Right, click on Cancel. Er, there is no cancel button. I guess you meant for me to click on OK?<\/p>\n

\"XXXX<\/a><\/p>\n

Ah, is that the Cancel button I was supposed to click on. Ok, I’ll give it a go…<\/p>\n

\"CTRL<\/a><\/p>\n

Right, what was next? Switch User, I think…<\/p>\n

\"Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Ok, I pressed that to try to unlock the computer before, but I’ll try again.<\/p>\n

\"XXXX<\/a><\/p>\n

It asked me to switch user. So should I click on the other user, or on myself again? I’ll try clicking on me.<\/p>\n

\"XXXX<\/a><\/p>\n

Hmm, there’s another switch user button. Perhaps I should click that? Or should I type my password? Or have I gone down completely the wrong track? I’ll type my password, see what happens…<\/p>\n

\"Your<\/a><\/p>\n

You don’t say? I was just doing all this for fun.<\/p>\n

\"XXXXX<\/a><\/p>\n

Aha! Now why couldn’t you have said that at the start?<\/p>\n

\"Your<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally. At least I don’t have to do that for another 30 days.<\/p>\n

The first time I did this it took quite a few more than just these 9 steps, as I went wrong several times. And choosing a valid password is another story entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my computer screen was locked at work today, and when I tried to unlock it it decided it was time for me to change my password. That’s not such a big deal – it’s just a case of trying to think of a password which isn’t the same as any of my last 30 …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[24,25,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesots.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}