Suggestion To Make Password Recovery Easier

in #utopian-io7 years ago (edited)

Suggestion

This suggestion came up as a result of complaints from fellow steemians who have been unable to recover their master password as a result of carelessness i will say. Majority of steemian that lost their master password happen as a result of inclusion of an unknown alphabet or digit, of which has make it difficult for them to have access to their steemit account,from other browser or immediately after they log out of their steemit account. Lost of steemit master password as a result of slight error made steemians unintentionally, has lead to frustration because there is no other options for them to recover their password.
Since there is big possibility of not having access to external backed, as a result of both man made and natural occurrence like, theft, fire out break, earth quake and other circumstances and also the existing backed up password on the device been compromised due wrong digit or alphabet inclusion unknowingly then it will become difficult to have access to login.
As there are so many other reasons in which steemian must have lost their master password, and been deprive of access to login to their steemit account from other device become difficult. Then i tend to bring a suggestion that can help steemian have access to their account again.

Suggested solution

The suggestion that can alleviate and solve the problem above, is the inclusion of a check box to show hidden password as shown below.

(After checking the hidden box)
(Before checking the hidden box)

Inclusion of this check box, will help. steemians who have enabled auto fill option on their browser to automatically fill their username and password to recover their master password. As most active users on steemit will always use auto fill form to access their steemit account.
Enabling this check box to show hidden password, will make it much more easier for steemians to recover their password from their browser to copy and update existing password.



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The Steemit master keyword should only exist on a piece of paper or engraved in a steel plate if you wish. It should certainly not live in your browser and be autofilled in whatever log-in procedure. It´s sufficient to log-in with the posting key alone. Only if required for wallet transactions, the active key (not the master key) can be collected from a trusted pw managing software.

wow I didn't realise you can login with just your posting key! Thanks for the tips! I'm pretty worried saving my password on browser too! Thanks @shaka!

I feel the same way and would not feel comfortable with the autofill option either :-/ I am very cautious when it comes to these things.

@tabealouise stay in touch i will tell you the important of using auto fill on my next post

I am looking forward to it and I am open to learn more :-)

You are right, what if you want to login, will you have to keep entering the password over and over again. What if in the process you lost your written master key on a sheet of paper.
@shaka what if you loss those password as a result of both manmade and artificial occurence as stated in the post.
Then you will need to go back to your phone to retrieve the password as suggested above.👆

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Active key and master key? Got time for a hands on? Thanks!

This is a good contribution.. Keep it up

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Hello @mayowadavid

This is a good contribution. I see you want to make another post to clarify somethings. Looking forward to that.

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I have just done that @dante31

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This is a good suggestion, and I think the password or master key recovery needs review.
I think saving passwords or some important information on the browser or computer is not safe especially when it is connected to funds

Smile will you have to keep typing your password regularly

I think the best way to recover forgotten password is to make use of the forgotten password option, where by if you forget your password. You will have to input your email and the system will send you another generated password.

Unfortunately option like that is currently not available

Report it as a bug in utopian. Because its a problem as far as steemit is concern.

@casweeney It cannot be reported as a bug, you can only suggest for it creation of which a suggestion like that has already been made.

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