Login Recovery - Forgot Password

[Karnaji]

Originally Posted by Uleat

You will probably get banned before that occurs...


Most of the people who administer this site have no control over the login server and account passwords.

So, recurrent bumping does nothing but aggravate the community and those with banning authority

So where is the database that stores the password? How can there not be a link to the SQL database if the table values are created here?

[Lochemage]

This makes little sense to me. Everyone who's signed up for an account here should have assigned a private email account to it. This in itself should be considered a secure form of authenticated communication. Anyone who is able to read a password reset message from that private email should be authenticated as the owner of the account, period. Frankly, I never understood this SMS authentication, sure it is convenient, but in general phone numbers change more often that emails.

[Karnaji]

Originally Posted by Lochemage

This makes little sense to me. Everyone who's signed up for an account here should have assigned a private email account to it. This in itself should be considered a secure form of authenticated communication. Anyone who is able to read a password reset message from that private email should be authenticated as the owner of the account, period. Frankly, I never understood this SMS authentication, sure it is convenient, but in general phone numbers change more often that emails.

That, and the SMS recovery is broken for numerous people.