MUME Help
CHANGE PASSWORD, PASSWORD
Your password is set using the
change password
command, or from
the account menu using the
password
command. You need to enter it each time you connect to
MUME.
Be sure to choose a good password that you can easily remember, but no less secure than you would for any other computer account. Don't use your character name, your real name, and in particular not a password you use somewhere else, in another MUD or for a computer account!
Beware: unless you connect to
MUME using an encrypted
connection (see help
tls
), your password
will be sent in plain text over the
Internet. This is bad.
Note: all passwords are case sensitive.
Lost password
If you have lost your password, you have to contact an Arata about the possibility of having your password reset.
Technical details
MUME stores passwords as SHA-256 hashes. However, if your character password was set before Jan 17, 2021, it is stored using MD5 (which is insecure). If set before May 10, 2018, it is stored using DES (which is very insecure).
Legacy character passwords
Old characters may have "character passwords" set. If you (successfully) log in a character, any character password it had will be automatically removed.
See also: | ACCOUNT, CHANGE, TLS |
Generated on Fri Feb 19 19:15:57 2021