Subject: Re: Help needed
From: Ondřej Jirman
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:32:37 +0100
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
> >