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Wishlists and feature requests: Settings Change Email Notification

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    • CommentAuthorcdhaigh
    • CommentTimeJul 1st 2009
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    I would like to be able to enter a list of email addresses that get notified when a settings change has occurred. This would allow me to let others have access to change settings, but also let me know who changed what so I can keep track in case of problems. Even changing the email list would send an email to the original list of the change.

    Thanks for your consideration.
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJul 1st 2009
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    "This would allow me to ... let me know who changed what"
    Although e-mail notifications may not be a major problem, how would you think you can get an information on "who", because there is only one set of login credentials per account? Therefore I would rather think that this is not feasible.
    • CommentAuthorcdhaigh
    • CommentTimeJul 1st 2009
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    I want to know a change occurred. I can ask the few I let make changes who made the change. I agree that you cannot know who made the change, but I would like to know that a change occurred.

    Porn filtering does no good if people can change the filtering options without your knowledge. At least with the notification, I know to ask around...
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJul 1st 2009
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    @cdhaigh
    Not sure why many people are so keen to filter p0rn. It's better to not block and to not visit such crap. The more it's blocked, the more are people keen to visit it...
    Also, the case where more people access an OpenDNS account is rather rare. I seldom have read this here in the forums. However, there was a requirement to have more login credentials available per account. And indeed, this makes sense, especially in business or organizational environments. Also, audit logging of changes should then be enforced, maybe with e-mail notifications, if you want to have your mailbox flooded...
    Thankful People: infinity306, Red Prince
    • CommentAuthorcdhaigh
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2009
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    Filtering porn is a requirement to prevent lawsuits or to try to protect younger members of the family from unintendended websites (I had a son that wanted to visit "Dicks Sporting Goods" [a large sporting goods chain in the US] and typed in www.dicks.com - need I say more?)

    I do not expect a flood of email because I do not expect settings to be changed a lot - unless someone (co-worker or teenager) is trying to bypass security measures.
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    thats what google is for..
    Also, why give other people your password? if they need to have a change made they should email you and you make the change.. then the Email notification is not needed...also if they can get into your network account to change settings they could also change the email address so you wouldnt get the notice of the change making the email a moot point..
    • CommentAuthorcdhaigh
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2009
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    1) Since email addresses are a settings, you would get a notification of the email address change.
    2) Who said I would give them my password? They have ways of finding it without my permission...
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    "They have ways of finding it without my permission... "

    How? (Hint: Don't let a browser save your username and password. Log out when you leave the site.)
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    @CDhaigh you have security issues going on it sounds like, and what I was trying to point out is that somebody who was logged in as you, could just as easily go to My settings and change the email address listed there before they made any changes, which would make the Email Notification a Moot point since it wouldn't be going to your email any more..
    • CommentAuthorcdhaigh
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2009
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    A good settings change implementation would at a minimum send out the settings change notification to the original email list. It could also optionally send it out to the new email list if it had been the settings that was changed.

    As for security, having audit trails on settings changes is good policy. Automated defense mechanisms are better than expecting users to do something in a particular manner (like making difficult passwords).
    • CommentAuthorrotblitz
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2009 edited
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    "email list"
    Wow, even a list! Where can I subscribe to it? :cool:

    "also optionally send it out to the new email list"
    I got the impression you receiving too few e-mail. Publish your addresses here, and I will take care that this situation changes - dramatically. :bigsmile:

    "As for security, having audit trails on settings changes is good policy."
    Fully agreed, yes. But this currently doesn't apply to OpenDNS accounts, as there is only one login credentials per account, so, unless the account holder is schizophrenic or has other mnemonic problems like Alzheimer's disease, he/she should know what he/she changed when and how... :tongue:

    What else can we do for you? :cool:

    P.S.: As @infinity306 identified, "you have security issues going on". You don't need to, really! :devil:
    Compensation and "automated defense mechanisms" are only needed in case of risks. Honestly, I don't see any, at least not the ones you're seeing.

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