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I have been cut offline for a few months, and now I have no idea what my password was what is the policy in these cases? Just abandon the character? Please add a note about this in the "rules" document or handbook.

Since there is no good (or easy) way to reset a character password for you then there is nothing that can be done. It is not a "rule" that needs to go on the rules page it is just that the code is not there to handle replacing your password. If you forget your password then it's your problem. Also if you give your password to someone else and then decide that was a bad idea, again it's your problem.

lalo wrote:I have been cut offline for a few months, and now I have no idea what my password was what is the policy in these cases? Just abandon the character? Please add a note about this in the "rules" document or handbook.

There are no ways of retrieving/changing a lost password built in the game. That's because we don't wish to have more players who are not even able to hack their own account back.

Seriously though, password changing/retrieval is a request and should be fulfilled by someone as soon as possible... for now, your best choice is probably to contact the admin of the server.

You'd need to ask someone with the ability to edit your player file. There's a line near the beginning whihc goes "password your-pass-here". Of course, proving ownership of your account could be... difficult. Can you restart a new account?

RFE # 821645

Avion wrote:RFE # 821645

Or the full URI

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=363833

If only the sf tracker allowed voting

as for contacting the admin: I thought this was the purpose of this forum? if you notice what forum I posted on, you'll see I'm talking specifically about a metalforge character, and not about the possibility of retrieving passwords in general (which, I suppose, I could code myself if I could find the time)

lalo wrote: as for contacting the admin: I thought this was the purpose of this forum? if you notice what forum I posted on, you'll see I'm talking specifically about a metalforge character, and not about the possibility of retrieving passwords in general (which, I suppose, I could code myself if I could find the time)

At this time, a forgotten or lost password means abandoned character.

Unless you can prove your identity and ownership of the player in question and (I assume..) the server admin can verify this information - they could (in theory..) reset the password through direct access to the server.

As mentioned before, there is no good (or easy) way to currently reset a lost or forgotten password.

You're right, the rest of the followups are a side tangent concerning resetting passwords and possible scenarios for a server admin to reset a password.

Do you not keep an IP associated with a login? Maybe it's just in the logs when a person does something bad.. if you can match this persons IP with the IP saved in the player file (if there was one), that would solve some problems..


Also.... Why not a web-type interface to change character passwords? I know it's not the most direct way to do it, but the file is text based.. you could re-write the same file, replacing one line with new password...

Just an idea...

Do you not keep an IP associated with a login? Maybe it's just in the logs when a person does something bad.. if you can match this persons IP with the IP saved in the player file (if there was one), that would solve some problems..

Two problems with this:
1. I regularly play from two different IP adresses, same person, same character(s)
2. At both these locations I am NATted and other players (my younger brothers and my housemates) play from the same IP adresses as I use.

None of these other people are me and should not be able to change my password on me.

Unfortunatly until IPv6 is introduced more widely, 1 person == 1 IP is not a valid assumption.