account

I was helping with `realmd` account creation today, and wanted to add some of my own documentation from the personal exchange to further help the public with technical literacy for this topic.

https://www.getmangos.eu/wiki/referenceinfo/otherfiles/managing-user-accounts-using-3rd-party-apps-r20088/

This page actually provides this more generic information well, but wanted to link that to here for that reason, and also in case I can add anything more useful too.

My statements are not producing the same value, but this is the clarified process, with differing examples.

Remember to replace `username` and `password` with your intended, respective values, and your resulting SHA1 hash will most likely be different than my `5b...78` hash.  For the shell command examples, I provide alternatives that request user input to compete, to make this more obvious.

Using the MariaDB included, or associated, GUI application client, HeidiSQL:

https://www.heidisql.com/help.php#queries

I use DBeaver, but have also used MySQL Workbench in the past, along with SequelPro for Apple computers, and Navicat even longer ago.

The base SQL, mentioned above, that I also wanted to represent a bit differently:

`SELECT SHA1(CONCAT(UPPER('username'), ':', UPPER('password')));`

Fish shell command line statements:
```
⋊> echo -n 'SELECT SHA1(CONCAT(UPPER(\'username\'), \':\', UPPER(\'password\')));' | mariadb -s -p"$dbRootPP";
5b039d152722e351c8bdebcf06fd8cd4e5244d78

⋊> echo -n 'SELECT SHA1(\''(read -P 'Username: '| upcase)':'(read -P 'Password: '| upcase)'\');' | mariadb -s -p"$dbRootPP";
Username: username
Password: password
5b039d152722e351c8bdebcf06fd8cd4e5244d78

⋊> echo -n 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' | sha1sum | cut -d' ' -f1
5b039d152722e351c8bdebcf06fd8cd4e5244d78

⋊> echo -n (read -P 'Username: '| upcase)':'(read -P 'Password: '| upcase) | sha1sum | cut -d' ' -f1
Username: username
Password: password
5b039d152722e351c8bdebcf06fd8cd4e5244d78

⋊> echo -n 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' | openssl sha1 | cut -d' ' -f2
5b039d152722e351c8bdebcf06fd8cd4e5244d78

⋊> echo -n (read -P 'Username: '| upcase)':'(read -P 'Password: '| upcase) | openssl sha1 | cut -d' ' -f2
Username: username
Password: password
5b039d152722e351c8bdebcf06fd8cd4e5244d78

⋊> echo -n 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' | /usr/bin/openssl sha1 | cut -d' ' -f2
5b039d152722e351c8bdebcf06fd8cd4e5244d78

⋊> echo -n (read -P 'Username: '| upcase)':'(read -P 'Password: '| upcase) | /usr/bin/openssl sha1 | cut -d' ' -f2
Username: username
Password: password
5b039d152722e351c8bdebcf06fd8cd4e5244d78

```

My environment:
```
⋊> neofetch --stdout distro kernel shell term
distro: Fedora release 39 (Thirty Nine) x86_64
kernel: 6.6.13-200.fc39.x86_64
shell: fish 3.7.0
term: gnome-terminal

⋊> mariadb --version
mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.21-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2

⋊> sha1sum --version
sha1sum (GNU coreutils) 9.3
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, and David Madore.

⋊> openssl version
OpenSSL 1.1.1b  26 Feb 2019

⋊> /usr/bin/openssl version
OpenSSL 3.1.1 30 May 2023 (Library: OpenSSL 3.1.1 30 May 2023)
```

The only remaining problem was that the new account, or at some point, any account, were all receiving messages that they were banned, or the account closed, and could basically not login using the WoW client.
Changing `LogLevel` to '2' in `realmd.conf` helped show us a message about an AuthChallenge code module reporting "Banned IP ...".

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amangos%2Frealmd banned&type=code
https://github.com/mangos/realmd/blob/8c08d47a9a3e6c64007be67074e7c587a5e63e5e/Auth/AuthSocket.cpp#L375

This could be answered in another article, and I may have seem some posts mentioning various strategies, but I want to briefly list the possible solutions for these other problems here, since they are at least close in function and process.

What may have fixed this these problems, while even using the localhost IP address 127.0.0.1 in the `realmd.conf` file, is restarting the realmd process.

https://www.getmangos.eu/forums/topic/10721-says-my-account-is-closed/#comment-79515
https://www.getmangos.eu/forums/topic/10690-stuck-on-connected/#comment-79328

For specific account problems, try using the same localhost IP address as the `localAddress`, but changing the `address` field to the external IP address of the machine the server is being hosted on.  An alternative is deleting the `address` field record's data.

We also checked reduced `failedLogins` to '0', any `active` field to '1', or `locked` to '0', and checking there was no matching record for either IP address in the `ip_banned` table, or even that it was empty.

Also, for any solution in this post, make sure all database changes are saved/persisted, so you can reload and find the data you updated again, which is more applicable when using GUI application clients to interact with a database, but also any command line execution in case errors are reported there too.