Admin Panel or Staff Account Password

[Strigoi Morte]

So, I am in love with the Global Account feature but being a site creator with secondary accounts that do not hold the same permissions as my staff account, I feel a little uneasy with the idea of if my account was compromised, it is only a single click to get to my staff account (that will have access to the admin panel).

Maybe the idea of having the admin panel protected by a separate password (set by the administrator) or the need of staff accounts needing a password to access that account?

Hopefully this makes sense and sorry if this has been brought up. I searched for keywords and nothing came up before posting.

[Shorty]

ProBoards has amped up security in this new version. The login has been put on ProBoards secure network. Also anyone wanting to gain access to your account would need to know your email and your password. And with emails not being visible in v5, the person would have to guess as to what you email was, and then guess as to what your password was.

[Strigoi Morte]

Mk. Well I'll just suck it up.

[RedBassett]

Greetings,

If you are concerned, simply increase the strength of your password. If they don't know your password, they aren't getting in.

lastpass.com/generatepassword.php

[Ryan Roos]

Additionally if you click on the gear icon in the bottom right it will load your Global Account settings. You can click Edit on Security. Set your login to be Email Only.

If you do this you will login with your email only. Not your username anymore. The best part of this is what Shorty was trying to explain above. No one knows your email but you. And no one knows your password but you. The odds of anyone being able to guess your email out of all the emails in the world and then also work out your password without hitting our security is pretty much impossible. Keep your email used for logging in private and make sure your password is secure and you will be fine.

We won't be adding a password to the admin area. I respect your concern for security, but it would be a far larger inconvenience. We have already improved secruity in a lot of places. We don't want people accessing your forum either. The admin area will be just as safe.

Thank you.

[Strigoi Morte]

Thank you everyone for your input. I was not aware of the 'email only' login. The only time I see an email besides when a user permits it is when an email is sent through the admin panel. But thank you everyone again.