I tried logging into steemit on a different computer and realized I don’t remember my password. I don’t even remember making one, and I think I joined before the login system was changed. Luckily I’m always logged in on my laptop. Any tips before I get locked for good
If you are logged in on your laptop and your browser has stored the password, you can retrieve it and then make a note of it somewhere. (On Firefox, go to Options, then Security, and then click on saved logins)
Afair, Steem has multiple private keys for different levels of access. I never store passwords in the browser, yet I am still logged in when I access the steemit.com site. So this indicates to me the (a proxy for the) private key (or access permission) is recorded server side and in a cookie on my computer which indicates to the server that I’ve logged in from this computer.
In any case, I expect if he tries to move funds, he will be asked to enter the higher-level access private key which he has apparently lost. So sounds like he will need to go through some identification process and be issued new keys?
Published at Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:05:51 +0000
