andre2
join:2005-08-24
Brookline, MA
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Re: DSL Setup Is Ugly If You Don't Want Active X Crap Installed
My father is online presently using attreg@att.net/attreg. A guy is scheduled to come to the house on Tuesday with a Windows laptop to finish the setup (which basically means getting him a permanent username/password). Maybe they realize that alternative OS users tend to be low-maintenance once they get set up and are worth it in the long run. Is the email password supposed to be the same as the PPPoE one? It wasn't clear from AT&T's online help. |
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graysonf
Premium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | Initially, the email and PPP password are the same. You can change them to be different from each other, but, ahem, that requires a supported browser and adding in some more crapware. |
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NetFixer
Freedom is NOT Free
Premium
join:2004-06-24
Murfreesboro, TN
 ·Vonage
 ·AT&T Southeast
 ·Cingular Wireless
·AT&T CallVantage
4 edits | Actually, I just recently (as in the last few days) went to »portal.att.net/bellsouth/s/s.dll···s_CB.htm using a Mozilla browser on a Linux system and had no problems creating a new email account and making changes to existing accounts (and it was all done with server side code and JavaScript, no ActiveX or any other code was installed on my Linux system).
It does appear however, that the ability to use a different password for the primary email account and the PPPoE login is no longer available (at least when using a non-supported browser or O/S).
UPDATE:
I was curious, so I went back to the account management site using IE6 on a Windows 2000 PC. I could get logged in and see the account profile overview, but I was not able to make any changes. I then tried a Windows XP PC with IE7, and I got the same results.
I was able to manage the primary and all secondary accounts from the same PCs using Mozilla/SeaMonkey with no problems, but I could still find no way to create a different password for the primary email account and the PPPoE login as we were able to easily do in the past.
AT&T needs to hire a few competent web site programmers, a simple cross platform script to change a password is not that difficult to implement. It really does look like AT&T has been hiring ex Comcast programmers to manage their account provisioning.
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