One password for all customers?

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xtrad
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One password for all customers?

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Hi,

I am building a website that has a section of password-protected pages.

After paying a fee, the customer will be given a password to log-in to the protected pages.

I was considering using just one password and giving this same password to every customer as they will all be accessing identical pages of information.

The alternative would be to give every customer a different password, which would mean more work for me, and i don't see the advantage.

We are not interested in tracking each visitor's use of the site, though we will be collecting customers' email addresses for possible future contact.

As i see it, if we use one password for all customers or a different password for each customer, the risk of customers letting other people use their password is the same.

It sounds illogical to use only one password, but i am left wondering why giving everyone a different password would make any difference.

I welcome your thoughts...
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PHPHorizons
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Re: One password for all customers?

Post by PHPHorizons »

If the password becomes abused, you couldn't change it...

Therefore, you should give everyone a unique password so that you can change or disable abused passwords.
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