I had forgotten about SDF but seeing SDF instance on Lemmy caught my attention. I used to use SDF for a while about 10 years ago and now it would be interesting to see if I have left anything interesting there.
I found my notes from ten years ago so I know what my username was. I don’t remember my password though. I tried to log in but to no avail. Is there any way to know whether my account still exists? Do accounts get removed if they’re not used for long periods of time?
For finger to work remotely, you have to have set up a .plan file as well as applied correct permissions to it at the time in your home directory.
I have a .plan file, I get that response from finger when I’m on SDF but it doesn’t work when I do the lookup remotely. I don’t recall the needed permissions.
$ finger chance Login: chance Name: Chance Platt Directory: /sdf/arpa/af/c/chance Shell: /usr/pkg/bin/bash On since Sun Jun 9 09:56 2024 (UTC) on pts/19 from 99.162.15.208 Mail last read Sun Jun 9 09:48 2024 (UTC) Plan: I'm friendly-like.Now, since you know your username, there is a password reset mechanism:
Password Reset at SDF Wiki
I tried
recoverbut it saysno such user. It very well might be that I didn’t set up any password recovery ten years ago. So either there’s no user with that login anymore or it reports no such user because it’s not set up for recovery. Maybe I’ll try make a new user with same username.@siipale You could try reaching out to membership@sdf.org.
You know what, I just checked, and account expiry is covered in the FAQ.
It might well be expired.
I second emailing membership, they might be able to help you. Or if you trust one of us, we might be able to check, as well.
This is not true. I do not have a
~/.planfile. I just double checked in case I set one up and forgot about it.fingerstill pulls some basic information without one.