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1/29/2007 7:24 PM
 
Hua Tao

Joined: 4/11/2005
Posts: 2

I still don’t get why DNN decides to allow a user know his / her own user Id therefore the size of the membership base, and anonymous to know whether a particular user ID exists.

This is my own profile page.

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/ForumsDotNetNuke/tabid/795/ctl/Profile/UserID/XXXXXX/Default.aspx

Nice, this is my user ID number in the URL and I know there are at least XXXXXX people signed up with this website.

If I simply change my user ID, without loggin in, and paste the URL into IE’s address bar. Sometimes I get “this account does not exist” error.

Why do you guys allow an anonymous user to have the knowledge of whether a particular user ID exists?

 

 
 
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1/30/2007 8:46 AM
 
John Mitchell


www.snapsis.com
Joined: 4/18/2003
Posts: 3987

If you want to you can make this number more obscure by going into the User table and changing the Identity Seed and Identity Increment numbers for the UserId field.

e.g. make your Identity Seed some large prime number (not too large), then make the Identity Increment a small prime number like 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 ...

This will also help with the fact that the user verification codes are composed of the portal number and the UserId.

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1/30/2007 11:51 AM
 
Brian Price

Joined: 10/5/2003
Posts: 85
You can take a look at our User Attributes product (www.ucanuse.com). The registration, profile, and email can all be customized. It wasn’t designed specifically to obscure the user id from the end-user but you may be able to accomplish that with our module. Asside
Qualtiy DotNetNuke modules and custom development; we've been serving the DNN community for over 2 years and have hundreds of satisfied customers. Let us serve you today.
 
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