Yahoo Password Check

[moulder]

Hello,

Does anyone know how to get around the daily password check at Yahoo Groups?
The only Yahoo filters I use are Mona's and I have login.yahoo.com/ on my AllowCookies list.

TIA,
moulder


 

[JakBeNymble]

Hi "Moulder",

             I think that yahoo e-mail has made some changes in their security in the last little bit. For right now until I can do some work on a few filters for the login, I've just added yahoo to the by-pass list. Here is what I have so far that will let me login without having to 'tick' or 'click' anything. I have the following added to the by-pass block-file list:

[^/]++us.f111.mail.yahoo.com|rd.yahoo.com|mail_us/ym/w
[^/]++login.yahoo.com|address.mail.yahoo.com|my.secure.yahoo.com/w

You can make it into one string, but I think that breaking it up works best for me. Take Care and Have a Great Evening.
"Jak"




Edited by - JakBeNymble on 02 Jul 2002  05:36:18

[moulder]

Hello JakBeNymble

Thanks for the reply. I added the strings to my bypass list and entered my password at http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups . Let's see what happens tomorrow.

Regards,
moulder


 

[moulder]

When I went back to above link after 24 hours the password check returned.
It's not a big thing though. By now I even know my password by heart


 

[Scott Lemmon]

I think Yahoo may be forcing this for security now.  I know when I post at Yahoo groups I'll sometimes be asked to re-enter my password too.

The only way round it would be to make an auto-login filter to fill in and submit your username & password automatically when the login page comes up.

-Scott-

 

[sidki3003]

Great idea!

Name = "Yahoo Login Form Filler"
Active = TRUE
URL = "login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?."
Bounds = "<forms*</form>"
Limit = 3000
Match = "(*input name="passwd" type="password")12"
Replace = "1 value="my_password" 2<script type="text/javascript">"
          "setTimeout('document.login_form.submit()',300);</script>$STOP()"


sidki


 

[moulder]

Cool! I changed the password check frequency from the max 24 hours to 15 min. The filter works.

Thanks,
moulder


 

[sidki3003]

Here is a version for those who filter SSL and don't like to see the certificate warnings by the browser on that page.

[Patterns]
Name = "Yahoo Form Filler (https to http)"
Active = TRUE
URL = "login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?."
Bounds = "<forms*</form>"
Limit = 4096
Match = "(*action=")https://(login.yahoo.com*input name="passwd" type="password")12"
Replace = "http://xhttps..1 value="my_password" 2<script type="text/javascript">"
          "setTimeout('document.login_form.submit()',300);</script>$STOP()"

As always, filtering SSL can be a security risk.

regards, sidki