Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

[Dan Farrell]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:28:42 -0500
Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> wrote:

> Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:03, Dale wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm hoping someone can explain this to me and maybe even offer a
> >> workaround.  This may only apply to us U.S. folks.  Banks and
> >> credit card company are in the process of changing the way you log
> >> into a website.  It "registers" your computer when you sign up as
> >> a security "feature".  Problem is, this doesn't work with Linux
> >> and I suspect it doesn't work on a Mac either.  I'm not sure, nor
> >> can I find out, what it uses to "register" my computer.  It may be
> >> a CPU serial number or something like that.
> >>
> >
> > Nah, I don't think they are that sophisticated.  Your link seems to
> > work fine in Opera and Firefox, but does not work in Konqueror.  I
> > am talking about accepting all cookies here, because it is cookies
> > and IP address that they use to identify your computer.
> >
> >
> >> I also don't know if this is Linux or the web browser, I use
> >> Seamonkey. I plan to test a theory at my brothers that uses
> >> winders XP and Seamonkey to see if it works up there.
> >>
> >
> > I think that it may have something to do with the way you have
> > configured your cookies.  Invariably they need you to accept
> > 'referrer logging' and third party cookies.  This is because they
> > most often than not use a different server to log who the users are.
> >
> >
> >> Any ideas??  Am I cooked?
> >>
> >
> > I don't think that you are cooked, but it seems that you will need
> > to change your cookie policy on the browser in question.
> >
> > PS. The more stupid of the banks also discriminate against anything
> > other than MSIE.  This can in most cases be bypassed by setting
> > your browser to be identified as IE (it returns the appropriate
> > headers to the server once you set it up to do so).
> >
>
> OK.  This is a start in the right direction.  I checked on my cookie
> settings and here is what I have it set too in Seamonkey.  Under
> "Cookie Acceptance Policy" I have it set to "Allow All Cookies" which
> is as allowable a policy as it has.  Under "Cookie Retention Policy"
> I have it set to "Accept Cookies Normally" which is the most
> allowable policy it has.  So you may could say I have it set to the
> least secure and wide open setting there is.  Keep in mind that all
> other sites store my login information just fine.  It is just this
> Passmark crap that doesn't work.
>
> Any ideas on what I can change here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)
>
How about your bank ? ; )

wells fargo online services work fine for me, as did those of US bank.
Don't know if you have ever heard of those...
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