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 Jun 11 2004, 5:30 am
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I don't have the password to my key, OR the email I signed the key up with, only my current email, and my key I lost is AaronSm, and AIM is Vladimir Spike15, ask someone that knows my aim and that'll prove that I really DID lose my key and forgot the pass. Alls I know is it starts with an i it's like ALOT of letters and numbers, I just scanned accross the keyboard to put in the pw so if anyone with access to keys could give me my password back I'll appreciate it, I spent so much time on that key.
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Jun 11 2004, 5:44 am
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Loduwijk
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Send a message to Dantom and tell them what you do know (a few characters and the number of characters in the password, as you said) and hope that is enough to convince them.
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Loduwijk wrote:
Send a message to Dantom and tell them what you do know (a few characters and the number of characters in the password, as you said) and hope that is enough to convince them. Does Dantom even "have" the actual passwords? I thought they just stored something like an MD5 hash. | |
One of the moderators (I forgot which one) once said that Dan, Tom and Deadron have the ability to take over keys. I would assume that would extend to such things as password viewing. Even if it does not, they probably could get into the passwords if they wanted to.
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Loduwijk wrote:
One of the moderators (I forgot which one) once said that Dan, Tom and Deadron have the ability to take over keys. I would assume that would extend to such things as password viewing. Even if it does not, they probably could get into the passwords if they wanted to. well ofcourse dan and tom can, they own byond. so im sure they can view passwords *IF* they wanted or needed. | |
Loduwijk wrote:
One of the moderators (I forgot which one) once said that Dan, Tom and Deadron have the ability to take over keys. I would assume that would extend to such things as password viewing. Even if it does not, they probably could get into the passwords if they wanted to. Unless said passwords are stored as a one way hash(as is likely). | |
I dont believe they can view the passwords, but I'm positive they can change them. As they have done with I forgot the password to this key years ago.
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Ah, so I can get my key back somehow?? I don't care if the passwords changed in fact I want it to be changed to something rememberable...and I sent dantom an email and no one responded yet..
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Have you tried using the key retrieval function? (Go to the website login page - you'll have to log out first, of course - and click on the "BYOND Locksmith" link.
You will need to still have control of the email account that your key is registered to, because it uses that for identity verification. Otherwise, you've pretty much lost your key, because it's just about the only way your identity can be verified. | |
Well, I've gotten my key back, the guy that had it FINALLY signed on and got it back from him, but just in case this happens again is there any way I can change my registered key email thing, since I lost the email I signed my key up with.
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The password as stated by Jon88 is in fact stored in an undecrytable md5 hash. No one including Dan and Tom have the ability to view your actual password, there are only three people out of the BYOND staff have the ability to change passwords.
As for the question at hand, you MUST have the email you signed up with in order to gain access to your key again, this is a method of identity verification, and without that we can't know you're the real owner of the said key. | |