Password Recovery sugestions!! Open discussion

[Dalsegno]

I'm trying to think of a way to handle ls server account account recovery/password recovery options I have a few questions for Rogean though since I don't know how the servers operate.


From reading here i have gathered the only way the Forum account is tied to the LS account is through creation and display you can't control anything on the ls account from the forum account correct?


Since they are tied in some way albeit limited is it possible to pull known characters on an EQEMU server just by knowing a forum account name?

Example: I have my forum account and 1 LS account, On that LS account I know I have a character on P99 named Newguy. By knowing a forum login only and possibly required the EQEMU server name is there a way to return Newguy from a query?

My idea is to have a dropdown of server listings and build a query to return a character name that exists on an LS account that would have to be an exact match on an input. This should be a complicated but good way to verify original or existing owners of an LS account, you have a main you should remember it's name.

the downside is LS account names being compromised if you know a character name on the LS account you would be able to gain access, which, I would hope the EQEMU users would be secure enough to not give out their LS account names.

It's not 100% foolproof as people do forget things so in extreme cases GMs/Rogean would have to manually reset password for LS accounts but it might be a nice thing to try out for automation.