Your Steem account is worth money! How to secure it with a new owner key to keep it yours forever
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Newbie here. I don't have a pencil showing on either posting, active, owner or memo. Anything I've missed?
Hey and welcome. It seems these have been deactivated for now, probably to prevent people from logging in with their active or owner keys. Thanks for pointing this out!
when will it be available again? trying to mine Steemd and need my active private key.... or get I use my public private key?
I just signed up and noticed this problem as well. I've set up my miner via Ubuntu 14.04 and need the active private key. I wonder if this is due to the recent hack? Anybody have any thoughts?
I dont have a "login to show" or a "show private key" button for Owner. The other 3 (Posting, Active, and Memo) i do. Is that normal?
Thank you
great guide! I prefer keepass or enpass as password managers / creators.
I agree password managers are easier. The guide above is good for the paranoid. One thing I found that wasn't clear was how to select your password. It seems like there must be a faster / easier method.
Perhaps some ideas on how to generate a good brainkey.
Diceware actually doesn't take that long, if you just keep rolling the dice and marking the result down until you reach 100. Then convert the rolls into words all in a batch.
The point is it's really good randomness. Furthermore, since this owner key is meant to be a one and done, and Steemit could potentially be around for decades, a password with 258 bits of entropy should be good for a while, right?
With KeePass, you can use the password generator. Specify a minimum of n characters, indicate upper/lower/numeric/special etc etc. Then press generate. The password will meet your specified criteria and be non word based.
keepass is AWESOME !
Thank you!
Awesome guide! Thanks for sharing this.
Is this guide still accurate? I just signed up but I do not see these pencil icons on my permissions page, even though I am logged in.
I've encountered this same thing. Only allows me to change the password to a different random on-site generated password.
I'm in the same boat. No pencils.
Thank you for the guide. But if we want mass adoption this process must be easier
would it be possible to create some kind of archive/folder/place for articles like this?
If someone has access to all but the owner key, what can they do? What are the permissions for each key?
The other keys can do everything but change keys (transferring funds, voting, etc.). The main thing that protects the value of an account as long as you have the owner key is the powering down process taking two years, and one week for even the first payment. If someone were to take over your account (via the other keys) and for example start powering it down or using it to vote on their own posts, you could recover it with the owner key (by changing the compromised keys) and limit the damage.
However, if you have liquid steem or steem dollars in your account those could be stolen immediately with the active key. The memo key could be used to see your private messages.
https://steemit.com/steemit-guides/@pfunk/a-user-s-guide-to-the-different-steem-keys-or-passwords
Cannot change [Deposit using Bitcoin ] from wallet menu !
Ether and Bitshare are displayed, but cannot select.