How to change your Steem Recovery Account with SteemWorld or SteemPeak

ausbitbank (73) in steem • 5 years ago (edited)

I've been asked a few times about this lately, this is one of the easiest ways for people to change their account recovery partner away from steem which is currently non responsive, and generally not the most trusted right now.

Go to https://steemworld.org/@YourUsername
For example my #palnet tribe account at https://steemworld.org/@wizardofaus

On the left hand side, select Account Details
On the right select Change Recovery Account

You'll be prompted for the username of your new recovery partner.
Make sure it's someone you can trust to respond to your request within 30 days.
This person needs to be able to be certain its you, discuss how you will contact and positively identify each other.

You will need your OWNER key to authorise this transaction. Currently only direct key entry, and steemconnect are available for this (no steem-keychain yet).

Hit OK and you're done! You'll see the recovery partner change request appear on the blockchain immediately, but the change will not take effect for 30 days from submission.

Alternative Method : Steempeak!

Steempeak now also has a brand-new very user friendly account recovery tools. I didn't realise when I started this post, but I may as well show both options now :)

You can access account recovery tools by going to your profile, and clicking "actions" in the header :

Then click "Keys & Recovery" and the "Account Recovery" tab

And enter your new recovery account, and your owner key

The change will be submitted, and take effect 30 days later.

More info about account recoveries

How to recover a stolen or hacked steem account by @abitcoinskeptic
Initial concept by @dan as a github issue
@someguy123 wrote How the steem account recovery works and why your trustee cant steal your account
@themarkymark wrote a guide to changing recovery account with cli-wallet

Thankyou @steemchiller for this tool, you get 50% of the payout of this post.

Update: Recoveries at steemit inc were fixed today (11/03/2020)- I would still recommend people take control of their own account recovery.

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5 years ago by ausbitbank (73)

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himalayannomad (60) · 5 years ago (edited)

Now, one can also do it directly via @steempeak. It's one of their newly introduced features.

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friendster (47) · 5 years ago

Not working for me @steempeak

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ausbitbank (73) · 5 years ago (edited)

Are you sure you're using your private OWNER key ? Seems like the wrong key type

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friendster (47) · 5 years ago

@ausbitbank yes using private owner key @steempeak , returns that message.

Also at steemworld.org it forces me to use steemconnect for entering the OWNER key for security reasons, but then it fails to create the transaction.

I'm pretty paranoid at this point, could it be that the TRON witnesses are denying this type of transaction?

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jaki01 (74) · 5 years ago

Same experience here, but got "38" instead of "149".
I tried it with two different accounts.

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jaki01 (74) · 5 years ago

In the meanwhile it worked here, too!

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tibfox (69) · 5 years ago

I can not reproduce this. For me everything works well

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ausbitbank (73) · 5 years ago

Thanks for the heads up, I added steempeak to the post too :)

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himalayannomad (60) · 5 years ago

You're most welcome.

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kus-knee (74) · 5 years ago

Thanks for the great advice and article. Not sure who to select as the recovery account. Can this be individuals? Would @blocktrades be an option for example?

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ausbitbank (73) · 5 years ago (edited)

You want someone that :

Is tech savvy and able to perform the recovery steps
You've had prior contact with
Will recognise you
Will reliably respond to requests within 30 days max

I can't speak for blocktrades, you'd need to contact them. I'm not personally wanting to become everyones recovery partner, only people I regularly speak with. You can even be your own recovery partner on a second account if you want

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kus-knee (74) · 5 years ago

Thanks for the reply. It's something important to consider!!

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tibfox (69) · 5 years ago

what would be the recovery steps? is there any short documentation on that?

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vikisecrets (68) · 5 years ago

cool, that @steempeak has now also implemented this feature :)

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sanjeevm (63) · 5 years ago

Make sure it's someone you can trust to respond to your request within 30 days

That's the most difficult part :) Using a Claimed account may be another option.

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bala41288 (70) · 5 years ago

This is a great suggestion. In any case, we may not lose two accounts at the same time. If we have to use our alt account as a recovery account, I guess we have to keep both the keys in two different places just to be safe.

And maybe the recovery process can be difficult for normal people who don't understand even a little tech stuff.

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abitcoinskeptic (73) · 5 years ago

Thabks for the mentions...

If Steemit isn't making accounts now, they probably aren't recovering them either. So if recovery account = steem , change now!

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valued-customer (67) · 5 years ago

Thank you very much for this, in particular, and for all your hard work to implement voluntary society. Few of us plebs realize the debt we owe you.

Thanks!

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ausbitbank (73) · 5 years ago

No worries, you owe me nothing :)

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sathyasankar (63) · 5 years ago

Thanks for this update. I think it would be a nice idea to create a Claimed account and set that account as recovery account. Because we need to consider people who like to remain anonymous.

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ausbitbank (73) · 5 years ago

That's another good option, just be careful how you store all your keys. If they both get stolen at once its useless

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osavi (57) · 5 years ago

Why should I change the recovery account?
Could you give me some reason for such a move?

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tamiil (65) · 5 years ago

Because Justin has disabled that feature via Steemit Inc. for now.

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osavi (57) · 5 years ago

Oh shieeeeet, thanks mate

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overkillcoin (69) · 5 years ago

I keep getting this error :)

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melinda010100 (73) · 5 years ago

I get that same error message. Did you get it figured out?

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overkillcoin (69) · 5 years ago

Nope nope nope, I'll be ruined. Ruined I tell you!!! :I

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melinda010100 (73) · 5 years ago

I got mine to work! I was simply using the wrong key. Operator error.

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overkillcoin (69) · 5 years ago

I was trying with SteemConnect, did you have to manually place a key in there?

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melinda010100 (73) · 5 years ago

I ended up doing it through Steempeak.

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overkillcoin (69) · 5 years ago

Maybe I'll just hire you to do it for me hahaa :)

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melinda010100 (73) · 5 years ago

Ha! As is obvious, I am no expert but I am happy to help or work through it together with you.

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saffisara (70) · 5 years ago

Thank you very much for sharing this 😉👍 Great info and good to know.

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themarkymark (78) · 5 years ago

If you want to do it without SteemWorld, I wrote a post a while ago on how to do it via CLI.

https://steempeak.com/steemit/@themarkymark/how-to-change-your-recovery-account

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foodiesunite (55) · 5 years ago (edited)

In the process of switching all our accounts and moving the specific accounts from the Steem account as the recovery account. Didn't know about Steemworld's ability as well. That's awesome. Thanks for pointing it out. We are the recovery for many of the accounts that we've helped on-board already, so they are safe.

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bigtakosensei (59) · 5 years ago

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tobetada (70) · 5 years ago

thanks for the post! I am still a bit unsure about this: so in case my account gets hacked, there is a recovery account (default is @steem) that will help me gain access to my account again (does this happen by sending me new passwords)?

And would it make sense if I were to set up an alt account (which I made myself) as my recovery account?

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nikolina (65) · 5 years ago

Thank you so much for sharing this!

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shmoogleosukami (54) · 5 years ago

That's all good and all but I don't have any trusted friends on steem. :(

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jacobpeacock (66) · 5 years ago

@ausbitbank should this be done for accounts who have the @steem account listed as their recovery account?

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ausbitbank (73) · 5 years ago (edited)

If you've lost trust in steemit inc and don't want to be dependant on them for account recovery then I would recommend changing it. I'm personally never going to use steemit.com again if I can help it.

However nothing will happen for 30 days, and be careful with your OWNER keys doing this. I haven't changed mine personally because I don't want to risk exposing my owner key (it's safe where it is). I will eventually, hopefully after we win this war :)

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jacobpeacock (66) · 5 years ago

Thanks for the clarification.

I am of much the same opinion as far as the rest goes.

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flemingfarm (68) · 5 years ago

Just did this for my wife and I this morning. Super easy through SteemWorld. Everyone needs to change if Steemit is still set as their recovery.

I like the idea of a new account that can be used as the recovery account. Then the keys can just be locked up and the account only accessed when needed for the recovery. I am going to do it but I just set ours so have to wait before I can, I presume.

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trafficinsider (46) · 5 years ago

It's always good to know various options for recovering keys and passwords.

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pixelfan (74) · 5 years ago

Next tut is about how to create an account with the same tool...
I don't think Sunny-boy is admitting new users right now 😉

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dain432 (25) · 5 years ago

good info!

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chesatochi (72) · 5 years ago

From a security standpoint! Do you believe is mandatory to change the recovery password at this stage from Steemit to Steemworld or Steempeak?

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joythewanderer (78) · 5 years ago

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bomex (48) · 5 years ago

Good information about success... Thank for sharing..

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polad (40) · 5 years ago

Great

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gabrielatravels (67) · 5 years ago

This also doesn't work for me using any of the two methods. And it doesn't work trying to reveal my private owner key and copy-paste it again, I only see it being made out of points even after I click to reveal or reload the page...

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amico (66) · 5 years ago

@tipu curate
Thanks for the useful how to! 🙏

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tipu (67) · 5 years ago

Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 10/15 - need recharge?)

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avare (65) · 5 years ago

Thank you for information
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builderofcastles (64) · 5 years ago

Do i have a recovery account?
When i signed up, there wasn't even a whisper of such a thing.

i was told, here is you key, right it down, copy it, make sure to keep it safe because there is no recovery.

So, was steemit always a recovery account?

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vermithrax (56) · 5 years ago

If you signed up with steemit then @steem is your recovery partner.

And it was: no recovery of lost keys. As far as I understand this is about recovery os stolen keys.

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arcange (73) · 5 years ago (edited)

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nitin21 (50) · 5 years ago

Thank you

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teeeddy (39) · 5 years ago

Thanks for your upload
It's very useful

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cerati (55) · 5 years ago

i just did a spanish translation of this post thanks a lot for the information @ausbitbank

https://steempeak.com/steem/@cerati/como-cambiar-tu-cuenta-de-recuperacion-de-steem-con-steemworld-o-steempeak-importante-para-proteger-tu-cuenta

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russia-btc (60) · 5 years ago

Excellent thank you. As I understand it, a trustee will not be able to steal Steem, the main thing is that he be in touch for 30 days - right? If people trust you, can they choose you?

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ausbitbank (73) · 5 years ago

If you ever need the recovery service, and you can't meet them in person then you need to be sure its someone who won't ignore you for 30 days. If your recovery partner doesn't respond within 30 days of the request, your account could be lost for good.

Trustee's can't take your funds. Please don't set me as the recovery partner, choose someone you know personally that understands the recovery process.

I have too much going on right now to offer that service reliably, sorry. I don't need that responsibility :P