Password Recovery sugestions!! Open discussion

[Kruel]

Honestly someone be our hero and help with PW recoveries!! I love you lon time.

[dredge]

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[Kruel]

Originally Posted by dredge [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

everyone should write their password on a postcard and send them to Santa at the North Pole, then when you loose it you can just ask for it back for X-Mas.

Honestly if santa helped me recover my PW i would kiss him passionately.. oh so softly.

[naekko]

I'm really against anything that allows users to change their passwords in-game (via a command in chat or something). I give out my password to a lot of people I know in-game (so they can log in my cleric at Seb entrance and res their group if they need to, etc.) and I like the separation of EQEmu and loginserver. It means they can't ever change my password and take off with my character.

I hope we maintain that separation in any system Rogean decides on. It's superior to any of the MMOs out there where giving your login means possibly losing your account if you're not careful.

[slapen]

Originally Posted by naekko [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm really against anything that allows users to change their passwords in-game (via a command in chat or something). I give out my password to a lot of people I know in-game (so they can log in my cleric at Seb entrance and res their group if they need to, etc.) and I like the separation of EQEmu and loginserver. It means they can't ever change my password and take off with my character.

I hope we maintain that separation in any system Rogean decides on. It's superior to any of the MMOs out there where giving your login means possibly losing your account if you're not careful.

What we are sugesting would actualy make your pw more secure because currently if someone hacked your eqemu he could change your pw and you would never be able to recover it. This way the original owner always can get it back I love it.

[nambar]

The issue as I understand it:

There are people out there with outdated Eqemu forum databases dumps with hashes of all the forum passwords. Any method of recovery has to take this into account.

Why not make a new form hosted on EQemu that for a short time will allow people to reassociate their loginserver account with another forum account? Make it last two weeks or a month to give everyone a chance and those who miss it, too bad (if you're that inactive does it matter if hackers control your accounts?).

Then after this grace period you can react whatever recovery method you want knowing most accounts are secured. Those who lost access to their EQemu forum account but still had access to their LS account have had a chance to get it straighten out.

I like the idea of e-mail being included someway in the recovery option but that's up to you.

Something as successful as EQEmu and P1999 really needs a password recovery option. I've lost access to one of my LS accounts and I cry a little every night thinking how much time I wasted that I can't recover. <-- Truth

[Zereh]

Bump ~ because it's a huge issue not to have a method of recovering or resetting passwords without having Rogean do it.

[bomaroast]

If I could get my password back I would be a daily player until spring.. I wonder how many others have been in this same position.. start from scratch on a server with way too much platinum on it or nothing... sigh

[Adnan]

bump.

[Adnan]

bump.