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Changing/recovering profile password.
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Author:  Modest [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Changing/recovering profile password.
All right. I have this problem - I can not log on as "Modest" because I simply don't remember my password. So I would like to know how do I recover it in game, so I can be myself on Invasion server. I think that there MUST be a way to do this. Also there MUST be a way to change password. If not now, than surely in some future releases. For now though it is important (actually critical as I simply will not play as anybody else than myself - Modest is nick that I got used to so much I simply don't want/will not abandon) for me to be able to get back/recover my password. Unfortunatly I simply don't remember what it was (sure if I would problem would be solved before it occured).

So in short - How do I do it? How do I recover my profile password for SAS Invasion server?

Thank You from advance.
Modest
Author:  pasik [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Changing/recovering profile password.
Modest wrote:
All right. I have this problem - I can not log on as "Modest" because I simply don't remember my password. So I would like to know how do I recover it in game, so I can be myself on Invasion server. I think that there MUST be a way to do this. Also there MUST be a way to change password. If not now, than surely in some future releases. For now though it is important (actually critical as I simply will not play as anybody else than myself - Modest is nick that I got used to so much I simply don't want/will not abandon) for me to be able to get back/recover my password. Unfortunatly I simply don't remember what it was (sure if I would problem would be solved before it occured).

So in short - How do I do it? How do I recover my profile password for SAS Invasion server?

Thank You from advance.
Modest

Password change is problematic currently because the servers are only collecting your username and password data to authenticate you; there's no secondary way like e.g. having you input your e-mail address in order for the server / admin to send you a new password via e-mail (and that would require servers to be properly configured to send e-mail in the first place or it would burden admins to point of going insane)..

There is a way to change the password, but it requires you to bother the admin of the server and figure out the hash for your username and the digest for your new password.

I guess the easiest way to figure out the username hash is by starting a new campaign and setting the username there as SOMETHING ELSE than the username you'd use on the server. Start the campaign and activate the server to make it joinable.

Now, start another RWR instance and using the manual ip input menu join your own server by setting localhost as the IP address and port as what you used when activating the server. Set username and password as you'd like them on SAS Invasion in this case.

After you've joined you can just quit both RWR instances. Go to %appdata%\Running with rifles\savegames\[your_campaign_name].save and open the .profile files in a text editor. One of them corresponds with your desired username and you've got the digest written there as well.

Next, you ask DocStone politely to access his Invasion server folder, and profiles subfolder there, look for a .profile matching your hash, open the file and change digest to match your new digest.

Done, password changed.

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We are going towards a solution that Steam users could avoid using password entirely, although not sure if that'll be very useful in the end when client side profiles become a thing.
Author:  Modest [ Thu Dec 04, 2014 3:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Changing/recovering profile password.
Thank You Pasik for reply :) I knew You would not make it just impossible to be done! :) I will try that with hope that I will be able to get my profile back unharmed (since password for profile will be changed I can have such hopes, right?) or if that will be not the case, than at least I will be able to be still "Modest" which... Well... Which is more important for me than statisticks, rank, RP, medals and every other stuff I had ;)

I only hope that it will not be a big burden for DocStone to do so. I hate being burden :(
Author:  Opt_0 [ Fri Dec 05, 2014 2:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Changing/recovering profile password.
Good luck Modest. I know the feeling. When RWR came to Steam I was faced with the same issue. But for me, thankfully it had been a while since playing online, so I didn't mind restarting my own profile. Also I was lucky that I hadn't used my proper shot name the first time, so I could use it for my Current profile.

Seriously, good luck.
Author:  Modest [ Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Changing/recovering profile password.
Thanks Opt_0 :) It is really nice to hear those words :)

Now... There is something I would like to tell to EVERYBODY who "lost" their profile like me, OR would like to RESET their profile (I wanted to do this from long time, but always thought that I would HAVE to change my nick).

I can use my nick again with reseted stats!!! It seems that all I had to do was to - start second profile (other than "Modest") and than after playing a bit (on invasion server) I "create" new Modest account with new password. DONE! I can still be Modest so my nick is not lost, and my profile is reseted! This way I can regullary reset it when having XXX exp and RP will become boring for me. And I didn't had bother DocStone with that - which is awesome (as I said, I hate being burden or trouble for others).

So problem (for me) solved ;) And... From now on You will be propably meeting low ranked Modest on invasion ;)

I would also again thank to Pasik for taking time and explaining things. It really means a lot for me to see such good will.
Author:  {SAS}DocStone [ Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Changing/recovering profile password.
Modest wrote:
Thank You Pasik for reply :) I knew You would not make it just impossible to be done! :) I will try that with hope that I will be able to get my profile back unharmed (since password for profile will be changed I can have such hopes, right?) or if that will be not the case, than at least I will be able to be still "Modest" which... Well... Which is more important for me than statisticks, rank, RP, medals and every other stuff I had ;)

I only hope that it will not be a big burden for DocStone to do so. I hate being burden :(


You're not a burden! Jack is a burden, hehe :D

Just let me know if you need anything done server wise ;)
Author:  Modest [ Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Changing/recovering profile password.
Quote:
You're not a burden! Jack is a burden, hehe :D

Just let me know if you need anything done server wise ;)


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D Glad to know THAT! I mean... Glad to know that I am not a burden. But I am sorry that Jack is ^^ I bet that He has totally NOTHING to do whole days, but to sit down and think how to make Your life more and more miserable ;) Yea :D That is totally how it must be ;)

Anyway - thank You for Your kind words :) However my problem is kind of solved. Not way I at begining hoped to, but way that I am happy altogether. Yes, I lost my all stats and my high rank. But who I am is set by my abilities - so even with low rank I am as good as with high rank (or as weak - that works both ways). As I can still play as Modest I do consider my problem solved ^^

Still it was awesome to recive so much support - firstly from Pasik, than from Opt_0 and finnaly from You DocStone. So thank You very much! :) And If I will have any problems in future that I think could be solved by You I will not hesitate to ask :)
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