The last time I wrote I was talking about signing up to postlinks.com and the account problems. Still no joy, but a bit more understanding.

The problem, it transpires, is that there is a check not only on the authority of the userid you have given them, but also the user name. They told me that I had to give them the access details to the userid Admin for the system to authorise me!

It was not explained if I could change the logon details once validated, but the issue I have is that I prefer not to set up blogs with a userid of Admin. But that is what they want.

It is a basic security step to use a user name other than “Admin”. If you use Admin then hackers only have to guess at your password. Use a different user name and they then have to guess both the user name and the password in the same attempt. Combine that with the Limit Login Attempts plugin and you are protecting yourself from brute force attacks.

Hopefully, as postlinks.com is a new system they will soon realise that not every blog uses a user name of Admin and accept a variation of other names. But until then I’m stuck, unable to validate my blog.

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