Managing Passwords

You should take management of passwords for your site seriously. This is particularly true for administrator accounts and additional accounts such as ftp or plesk accounts that you may have been issued by NeatWorx.

While it is unlikely that an unsophisticated user can do damage to your site while logging in with a regular user account, someone with administrator privileges can do significant damage including deleting all of your web content.

To generate a secure password for your administrator, you may want to use a free on-line password generator such as the tool at the URL below.

http://onlinepasswordgenerator.com/

These free password generators make your site much more secure by using passwords that are resistant to common means of attacking web-sites such as dictionary attacks.

To make sure that your site is protected from malicious activities such as changing content on the site by unauthorized users, we strongly recommend that all privileges for newly created accounts be set to “no”. This will prevent a hacker from a guessing a member account on your site only to find that they have access to an account allowing them to alter your menu configuration or upload photos or some such thing.

Some other recommendations are: