.Mac ?

stoneage

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Sep 29, 2002

• #1

I signed up for .mac and am able to Backup, have an email account, iDisk etc., but when I go to System Preferences /Internet and click the .Mac tab my member name is correct but the password is not. My password has 8 digits and the one in the window has 10. How do I change the password? When I click on the iDisk tab it tells me to enter my info on the .Mac tab (catch 22). I can circumvent this by going to Apple/.Mac and entering my password there. Any ideas?

 

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meghop

macrumors member

• Sep 29, 2002

• #2

.Mac appears to be down again - it's had some problems this weekend. Sorry dude, just bad timing, but at least its not you. 😉

 

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dotcomlarry

macrumors regular

• Sep 29, 2002

• #3

it appears as tho the pane adds a few of those characters in a further effort to hide the password... i've seen the same thing with a shorter password, but the password itself isn't affected.

 

MacBandit

macrumors 604

• Sep 29, 2002

• #4

This is correct. The amount of dots in the entry window has no correlation to the number of characters in your password.

 

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mac15

macrumors 68040

• Sep 29, 2002

• #5

it ads a few for your protection, someone could see how many and guess it