In message , VanguardLH
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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[Usual thorough and lengthy VanguardLH answer snipped: good stuff, just
not related to the OP's problem/question ...]
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Hmm, now who was it the made that statement? I addressed your second
statement in the misbelief that a NAT router is going to hide you or
that a device behind it cannot be uniquely identified. You really
thought all you would get is a "Not difficult at all" response?

Not from you I suppose! You and I are a bit alike in that respect.

OK, they can and it's easy for them to do so. The first part of my
question still stands: does Skype log individual computers? If so, does
it force a user setting up a new computer on an existing account to
create a new password if they've upped the requirement since the account
was opened, but still allow existing computers to use grandfathered
passwords? Seems a bit inconsistent if so. I still think it thought a
new account was being created.

Since the multiple hosts are connecting to the same account, it should
be the same login credentials used on each host. Different login
credentials from different devices (hosts) connecting to the same
account would cause undue hardship and confusion to the users. They
won't remember a whole bunch of different logins to the same account.

That's what I thought.

*IF* it is indeed the true scenario of the actual owner logging into
that one account, it should be the same login credentials at each host.
So something else is happening that we're not being told about here.

The OP claims he is logging into the SAME account and we are inferring
that it his account. Not many client hide the username field for the
login credentials, so the OP can easy obtain what is his correct
username for logging in (name, e-mail address, or whatever). He wants
our help on bypassing login requirements on his new host. If he knew
what was his old password, and since that old password still works on
his professed prior host, then it's the same password now for his new
laptop.

Agreed.
[rest snipped.]
I assumed that he had somehow ticked (or not ticked) the wrong box in
setting up Skype on his new machine, such that it thought he was setting
up a new account instead; if I understand you correctly, you think he is
asking for our help in hacking into somebody else's account. Since we've
scared him off with our (good-natured I hope) bickering, or at least
he's wandered off in disinterest, we'll not know which is the case.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past
while every sinner has a future. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)