docs(pubnix): Document account recovery process #3
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Especially on cases that they locked out of their pubnix (or even their accounts on services hosted here) and admins need a documented way of verifying their identity without going through passing their IDs throughout Stripe Identity and meeting humans in real life.
Suggested account recovery methods
openssl
) OR send a recovery request over email with GPG signature/encryption.Prior art
I've talked to cobra about this, she is onboard. And we will probably let users submit their PGP public keys to a file like
~/.key
in their pubnix account. But cobra is busy right now, she will implement it later.We could let the users recover their accounts via an online form on the ~vern website (similar to how we do user registration currently), in fact, if we outsource it to a script then that'd be quite nice. (No one wants to manually reset passwords for a user on all their accounts)
TL;DR; We're planning this, it will be implemented someday.
I'm also thinking about doing committed identity similiar to how both Wikimedia and Miraheze accounts can be also recovered (context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Committed_identity) through one-way hashing.
This is quite cool, but we will do the account recovery stuff first.
this issue is closed; we already documented it at https://wiki.vern.cc/en/recovery/ and you can access the recovery form in https://vern.cc/en/recovery