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Support account movement #12577

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Biep opened this issue Feb 29, 2020 · 8 comments
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Support account movement #12577

Biep opened this issue Feb 29, 2020 · 8 comments

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Biep commented Feb 29, 2020

When people move from one server to another (as many are forced to do now that mainland China has blocked matrix.org) they normally want to keep their room memberships and keys.
Of course distributed accounts should become a higher priority now that China starts blocking servers, but until then, it would be great to have a simple way to copy all the relevant account information from one server to another - maybe by, when creating an account on the new server, providing the data for the other account (including password and passphrase).

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t3chguy commented Feb 29, 2020

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Biep commented Feb 29, 2020

OK - I meant if the old account is unreachable by the user (but still by the server of the new account).
And does the migration tool move decryption keys?

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t3chguy commented Feb 29, 2020

Given that it doesn't ask you for e2ee passphrases I'd wager not.

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Biep commented Feb 29, 2020

OK, so then my request is for a feature where an account on a non-blocked server can import the whole state (including keys) of an account on a blocked server.
But still your link is already very useful. Thanks!

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t3chguy commented Feb 29, 2020

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ibotty commented Jul 15, 2020

https://modular.im/tools/matrix-migration

Is there some source so it can be run without trusting modular.im?

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t3chguy commented Jul 15, 2020

It runs entirely in your browser, feel free to Ctrl+S and disect the javascript.

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t3chguy commented May 6, 2022

@t3chguy t3chguy closed this as completed May 6, 2022
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