Subject: Re: Help needed
From: Benjamin Goetz
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:39:30 -0600
Thanks, this gives me a password key, a master key and a user-handle.
(besides a lot of other things). command I had to use was megadf --debug
cache.
Can I use any of these?
Regards
Benjamin
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:32 AM Ondřej Jirman <megatools@megous.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:21:06AM -0600, Benjamin Goetz wrote:
> > Thank you for your email.
> >
> > is there a way to change my password through megatools? Can I get my
> > masterkey somehow. I am sure you are right about the special unicode
> > characters. Because I interpreted the syntax of the command wrong now my
> > password has " " wrapped around them. Apparently those are not the
> standard
> > ones.
> > Do you think I can recover the password somehow? Like I said megatools is
> > able to connect at the moment.
> > Really appreciate it.
>
> Look at megatools df --debug cache
>
> regards,
> o.
>
> > Regards
> > Benjamin
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:01 AM Ondřej Jirman <megatools@megous.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 09:39:28AM -0600, Benjamin Goetz wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have registered and verified an mega account using the megareg
> > > command. I
> > > > have also created a ./.megarc config file including my username and
> > > > password.
> > > > The ls and df command are working fine. When I try to login to
> mega.nz
> > > > using the website in a browser copying the credentials from the
> ./.megarc
> > > > it says invalid email address or password. I can not download a
> recovery
> > > > key if I can not log into the webinterface. What should I do? I
> > > appreciate
> > > > your help.
> > >
> > > Sorry, I have no idea how to login to their website. It worked just
> fine a
> > > year
> > > ago with accounts created with megareg. Maybe you have some special
> unicode
> > > characters in your password, that the website is interpretting
> differently.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what a recovery key is. I haven't really tracked changes
> in
> > > mega's
> > > API since they removed documentation for it.
> > >
> > > All you need for recovery is to save the password somewhere. The
> master key
> > > is derived from it. There was no "recovery key" when I wrote megatools.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > o.
> > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Benjamin Goetz
> > >
>