SMS Account Authentication

[Shannacore]

Maybe we can all be texting buddies ~

[AstyTZ]

I'm in favor of this. My fiancee and I quit playing about a year ago and I just recently came back. I gave most of my stuff away when I quit (oops), but she did not. She had intended to, but the person she was going to give her stuff to never logged on.

At any rate, she has no idea what her password was, and the lack of a password recovery system is disheartening. She put in a lot of work gearing her main and alt (as did I) and we can no longer access any of it.

I don't personally care about giving my cell phone number away (except when Karsten uses it to call me at 4am, which HAS happened), but I am sympathetic to those that do care or don't have one to give, as well as people abroad. Opt-in seems like a swell idea to me if it would work.

Has the "what if you get a new cell phone number" question been asked/answered yet? I'm browsing on my droid so maybe I just missed it. Is there a way to change the number set to your account? If so, how would a "hacker" be prohibited from replacing your number with theirs?

[ir0nfist]

I also do not own a phone and don't plan on getting one. However it seems you are definitely trying to offer options for those that don't have one. So my hat is off to you, unfortunately I don't think I own a hat either.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by ir0nfist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I also do not own a phone and don't plan on getting one. However it seems you are definitely trying to offer options for those that don't have one. So my hat is off to you, unfortunately I don't think I own a hat either.

I hear ya.

Frackin' hipsters!

Well, I'm glad there's the Google option, else it would end my free fun.

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

It's called a job. Get with the times and get a proper phone plan that most modern day people should already have. I know, I know, living in the past is a hard thing to get over, hence the constant vegetation over this server.

Screw that. Texting is evil.

[Rhambuk]

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

I hear ya.

Frackin' hipsters!

Well, I'm glad there's the Google option, else it would end my free fun.


Screw that. Texting is evil.

Glad they are working on an alternate plan for those without phones.

I miss the days of paper...

[Dr.Spike]

one easy thing, would be to make a program that is hardware locked.
And that program connect to a server and let you reset your password for the account(s) thats locked to the hardware id.
And any atempt from another hardware to reset someone else account, get banned for 24h (after 3 tryes)for trying to reset someone else account.
Could do this in many possible ways

[akahdrin]

I'm only going to be in the country for a little while longer and then I'm moving overseas again, will I need to verify this more than once? I have access to a cell currently, but in about 3 weeks I'll be in Peru for a year.

[Lomol]

This may be a dumb question because I only kind of understand how things work. Will this have an effect on account sales or when folks do this are they actually selling an EQMU account?

[runlvlzero]

Just curious on whether this is still going to be implemented, when, and how will we give your our phone #? through a new form input field on eqemulator.org, or internally through the EQclient? like a #SMSnumber command in EQ's chat.

Oh ya, and I was also wondering if this was gonna effect just project 99 or all servers on eqemulator.org, like PEQ, the EZ server, and Hidden forest.

[Casualties]

any update on retrieving login server passwords?