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Wget: Is there a way to pass username and password from a file?
Is there a way to pass the username and password from a file instead of the command line via --user and --password?
Background: I want to run wget via cron and don't want the username/password show ...
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SEO Consultant Wants System Credentials
An SEO consultant has asked (demanded) credentials to the web environment so he can do ... Whatever it is that they do.
I'm new to the company but an experienced Systems Engineer. I've just now been ...
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Why can a user grant themselves the Log On As A Service right?
This article describes the (relatively laborious) steps you should go through to grant an Active Directory user the Log On As A Service right. However, if I install a service and manually specify my ...
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Protect SFTP Passwords
A number of non-technical users currently manage secure data with FileZilla on Windows. The SFTP credentials are broadly shared in the organization as a result.
I would like to centrally manage ...
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Windows 7 - Group Policy - Allow RDP Credentials to be Saved
Im trying to use RDP and save my credentials in a file so I dont have to entire it each time I connect.
I remember doing it before and it involved changing a group policy setting. What exactly do I ...
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Why doesn't VisualSVN enforce credentials correctly?
I have a svn repository that is managed by VisualSVN.
I have created a new group and added two new users to that group. When i attach this group to an existing repository and set the rights to ...
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Detecting login credentials abuse
Greetings.
I am the webmaster for a small, growing industrial association. Soon, I will have to implement a restricted, members-only section for the website.
The problem is that our organization ...
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Automatically refresh credential after password change
Lets say we have around 300 Windows XP machines on our ActiveDirectory domain that are used for processing something. Each has an account which is patterned on the machines name. As these are ...
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Using Credentials with network scanners
I'm testing out both Tenable's Nessus scanner as well as eEye's Retina for scanning network devices. I am trying to supply credentials to get deeper, more accurate results, however there seems to be ...
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Asking for Credentials, when requesting shared folders on the server, regularly for domain users?
In our network, single domain controller, when some users (members of the domain) request shared folders on the server they are required to enter their credentials,
the server is Windows Server 2008 ...
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How do I reconnect to a UNC share using different credentials
I connected to my NAS using windows explorer, by entering \\DS412 in windows explorer. It prompted me for a username and password. I entered them and then the DS412 showed up under Network in ...
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virtualapp/didlogical credential in Windows 7
In the Windows 7 credential manager, what is the virtualapp/didlogical credential for?
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call from ec2 instance to 169.254.169.254 for security credentials returns invalid credentials
So in theory, if a person needs valid credentials for an Amazon server, instead of hardcoding in their access key/password, one can call out to 169.254.169.254 for credentials to access certain ...
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Strategies for protecting third party PHP web app config files
I'm interested in comments and strategies for protecting PHP config files, particularly those with Db credentials.
The stock advice, set the file extension to *.php, is fine as far as it goes, but it ...
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Do domain service accounts benefit from cached credentials?
When a domain user successfully logs on to a domain-joined computer, the user's domain credentials are cached so that the user can logon again if the domain controller is unavailable (eg the computer ...
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Specify Credentials to run Powershell Script to Query AD
I want to run a powershell script to query AD from a machine that is NOT on the domain.
Basically I want to query to see if there is computer account already on the domain for this machine and create ...
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Windows 7 use some credential mapping?
At the office we have a Windows 7 which was configured by a bad admin : he mapped the shares with an administrator user.
This Windows 7 is in a domain, and the admin user is named admin. So this ...
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Windows service running under network credentials doesn't autostart
I have a Subversion Server running as a resident service on a Windows XP Pro machine. That service needs to access a secure network fileshare, so I used the Services->Properties->Log On tab to tell ...
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Securely Store Credentials for a Web Application
We are running a web application in python using wsgi with apache2, and must submit to a penetration test. The testers will be exploring the potential for damage if the attackers gain shell access as ...
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IIS 6 prompts for creditials when on server, but not from client
I have a MOSS 2007 farm running on windows server 2003 R2 64 bit and IIS 6. When I try to connect to the farm locally on the server, no matter what site, CA or any of the SharePoint web apps I get ...
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Authenticate domain-user credentials on unjoined virtual machine?
This question may sound silly, and perhaps a bit insane, but--is there any way to run a process on a machine not joined to a domain using credentials from a user in that domain?
In my case, I'm ...
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Moving from OpenLDAP/Kerberos to Active Directory
I have a well working setup using OpenLDAP for user information and Kerberos for authentication, but we need to have windows integration too, and for this we have decided that moving into Active ...
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ByPass credential prompting on drive map - windows server 2k3
I have 2 windows server 2k3 machines - server A and server B, Server A is on the company domain, and Server B is not. I have a need to bypass the credential prompting that happens every time I map a ...
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Windows Command-Line Utilities Started Prompting for Password
Recently my computer started prompting for the password of my domain account (that I am logged on as) when running command-line tools such as tasklist or taskkill on remote domain computers. On other ...
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Can't run powershell start-process with alternate credentials
tI am trying to run a powershell script from another powershell script using alternate credentials.
If I run:
$cred = get-credentials
$localArgs = "/c Powershell c:\myscript.ps1"
Start-Process ...
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How can I test domain credentials against multiple machines simultaneously?
How to test domain credentials against multiple hosts in a subnet/domain taking into account that WMI is allowed for remote access and no firewalls on local machines are enabled?
I need something ...
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CertificateServicesClient-CredentialRoaming error 1005
We have a Microsoft Team Foundation Server (Single Server Installation, i.e. Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Windows SharePonint Services 3.0) installed on a Windows Server 2008 machine. The TFS ...
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Need prompt for credentials from computer outside domain in a domain network
I have a computer (Com1) which is connected to a network that is part of a domain (Dom1). On my Windows 2008 R2 server (Serv1), which is a part of the domain, I have a share called Program. The share ...
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Securing database credentials in automated deployment of nodes
In a situation where you're deploying nodes (e.g. amazon ec2), what are the recommended best practices for securing things like credentials to other resources? Without solving for scale, we might ...
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Outlook's default credential login
I have a Windows Exchange 07 and all my users are using Outlook (2k3, 2k7, 2k10).
Every time I need to reboot the server for maintenance, their Outlook lost the connection, but when it's back online, ...
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a safe way to provide multiple ftp credentials?
We have a web development company and have ftp credentials for over 300 customers. Is there a method to provide access to employees without giving them username and password? Kind of how credit card ...
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Moving database to new server
I'm restoring a backup of a production database to a new server. The new server also hosts the application which makes use of the database. As such I'd like to use the same user/pass combination to ...
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Server 2008 Group Policy controlled workstations?
We currently have around 35 workstations on our network each connected to our Server which is running as a domain controller, DNS server and file server.
We are an animal hospital which means there ...
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Route of education to go for systems (security or network) administration? [closed]
I am trying to look at all the available options my local technical institute provides for systems administration. There appears to be various technical bachelor course sets, diplomas of technology, ...
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How do I open firewall ports for Windows file sharing?
This is required for Visual SourceSafe to work.
I need to know what ports need to be open to the outside, so Windows file sharing can respond to users in the public internet. Users need to be ...
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Can't use domain credentials, but server is part of the domain
I have added a server to my domain, but the domain credentials don't work on the server even though it offers the domain at login. The server has an entry in the AD, DNS, and DCHP; any suggestions?
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Unable to specify alterntive credentials using 802.1x wireless connections on Windows 7
Using Windows 7 I am unable to connect to the wireless network using 802.1x settings. I have configured it exactly as in Vista using certificates and checking the use alternative credentials check box ...
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sbs2k3, how do I properly setup ad sites/subnets so vpn user can authenticate to sbs share?
just setup site2site vpn, hardwarebased. site 1 winxp, site2 sbs2k3. site 1 192.168.1.0/24 site 2 192.168.0.0/24
site 2 user can authenticate into site 1 xp computer network share using local user ...
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debian: add user mysql to group www-data - how to take effect?
i add the user mysql to the www-data in /etc/group,
is it really necessary to reboot to take effect?
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mysql and unix users control
Let's say I have two users on my UNIX machine - user1 and user2.
I also have two MySQL databases - db1(mysql_user1) and db2(mysql_user2).
I want to prevent user1 from connecting to db2 even if it ...
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Using IIS and windows credential to login
on windows 2003, we have a CRM that we have built. i want the login to be with the logged in user on the computer.
when i remove the anonymous from the iis i get the popup for username and password.
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RDP Connectivity to Windows Server 2003 Servers Intermittently Lost After Date Changes
Connectivity via RDP to our Microsoft Windows Server 2003 web and database servers unpredictably drops at varying points after we change the server dates. It usually occurs when we leave the server ...
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Upstream proxy help!
My scenario is this: My manager wants random unmanaged users who come into meetings to have easy wireless access to the internet. We are running windows server 2003 with AD. The issue is our internet ...
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Can't save credentials in group policy scheduled task
I've created a scheduled task inside a group policy, an update task under computer configuration. I need the task to run whether or not the user it's running under is logged in, so I select the ...
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Is it possible to save credentials in MAP toolkit?
is this possible to save different credentials (both local and domain users) in MAP toolkit to avoid entering them every time the scan is performed?
Perhaps, the files with server names can have ...
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Paypal Express Checkout api credentials - How to store them properly?
I've been searching the internet and I've come up with a lot of answers of how to store paypal API credentials(Used in Paypal Express Checkout.) They say to hash the credentials using salt. But what I ...
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Add generic credential using group policy?
In Windows 7, if I go to control panel > user accounts > user account > manage your credentials, there are credentials saved for the local user.
Is there a way to add a generic credential ...
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git refuses to send credentials over http?
curl seems to work fine, but git does not. git asks for a password, but then doesn't send any credentials.
works: curl --netrc http://test.git.unsw.edu.au/ and curl -u username:password ...
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Windows 7 Explorer constantly tries to log in to Shared location using invalid credentials
When I navigate to \\SOMESERVER\SharedFolder Windows 7 'thinks' several seconds, then Enter Network Password dialog appears.
Problem: administrators of SOMESERVER claim that multiple (hundreds) ...
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openldap 2.4.11 - bdb_dn2id: get failed: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found (-30989)
I am struggling quite a while now, googled a lot and I have not yet been able to figure this - hopefully - simple problem out. I am a beginner in ldap so I might be missing something very obvious ...
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