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Passphrase conflict #2110

Open froeschele opened 8 years ago

froeschele commented 8 years ago

I had a public key uploaded to Keybase, and I decided later to also add the private key via the Keybase cli. That worked, but it left my Keybase account in a strange state because the passphrase for the key (pre-established outside Keybase) didn't match my Keybase account password. I ended up in a state where (1) the key passphrase was used for decryption, (2) the Keybase password was used for login, BUT (3) neither passphrase could be used to change the Keybase account password nor confirm that I wanted to delete the key. I ended up being able to solve this by resetting my account password via the "forgot password" flow.

maxtaco commented 8 years ago

I took a quick look at your account. Do you recall how you posted the last signature to your account? Was it through the Web interface?

froeschele commented 8 years ago

I'm not sure, but I was probably using the cli since I didn't have a private key stored in Keybase previously?

maxtaco commented 8 years ago

I think I see. You're still using our super old node.js client, that we've discontinued support for. Do you want to try out new client? Install instructions here: https://keybase.io/download

froeschele commented 8 years ago

I'll try it, thanks!