Passwords have been used in computing since as early as 1961, on MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System - one of the first multi-user machines. They are generally used in combination with a username to authenticate a user's access to various resources that are not public. For added security, passwords ...
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“svn: Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism” for OSX CLI and WinXp TortoiseSVN, but linux CLI works
I had a working subversion server which used the passwd file which stores passwords in clear text. My requirements changed so that passwords now need to be encrypted. I did everything according to ...
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Apache 2.2.15: Allow from CN require auth from Internet
How do I configure httpd.conf for directory /something
to grant access to everybody from 10.0.0.0/8 withOUT password
AND to require everybody else coming from whereever to basic authenticate
The ...
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6answers
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Keeping and maintaing a password list [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Company Password Management
How Do You Manage Your Passwords
Not sure if this question suits this site but here goes.
What recommendations can you give to ...
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2answers
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How can I run an application from a network share without prompting for Admin password?
I have a company internal application placed in a network shared folder on a Windows Server 2003 server. Users who need to access this folder have proper permissions in place and can list the ...
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1answer
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WLST in Weblogic 8.1
I'm creating a script to change weblogic passwords. For our WL 9.2 servers, I doing this via the WLST using a simple .py script. However, for our WL 8.1 servers I'm unable to start WLST and run the ...
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1answer
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Why is SSH insisting on letting me log in?
I'm trying to disable logging in by password on a remote Ubuntu server, so that it's only accessible by using the encrypted key file thingy (I'm not totally clear on the terminology).
I followed ...
4
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2answers
130 views
How to save/restore a Windows AD password?
We often have to tweak, test, or repair some software when the users are not there.
For example, today one of us set up a new mail account on a user's computer, but the user is on holiday. This then ...
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0answers
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Password problems with postgreSQL [closed]
I've accitently managed to install postgresql 8.4 on my mac. I have no Idea on how to use this stuff and want to get it uninstalled. I tried a tutorial on the web about manuall uninstallation, but ...
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3answers
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How to Set Multiple Passwords for “HIgh Profile” Accounts
I generally set up servers with "important" services listening on nonstandard ports (e.g. SSH != 22) and rename or completely remove root/admin users. I recently thought that it might be fun to create ...
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0answers
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Expired password change through FreeIPA Web UI?
FreeIPA automatically expires a kerberos password when a password is changed by an admin ( http://freeipa.org/page/NewPasswordsExpired )
And the Web UI does not allow for people with expired ...
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2answers
130 views
AD User Passwords expiring without any notifications?
We setup password Policies in Active Directory to Expire peoples passwords after so many days. Well it looks like the time has come for the Expiration of the Passwords and people are getting locked ...
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1answer
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How to enable password challenge in Active Directory?
As IT Support, my team is taking so much time reseting passwords. So, we thought it would be interesting to enable some sort of Password Challenge in Active Directory so users could reset their own ...
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1answer
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TigerVNC + SSH without a VNC Password?
I have a RHEL 6 system with TigerVNC installed. It is configured to only allow VNC connections through SSH. Thus, a user can only connect to VNC if they successfully establish an SSH connection to ...
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0answers
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What's a good solution for a shared password database? [closed]
I was thinking that I would create an access database and password protect it. This way multiple people could have access to it and it can be encrypted.
Basically I need a password database that:
Has ...
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1answer
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Password-checking program for webmin
I'm trying to perform password quality checks using pwqcheck (part of passwdq) in webmin.
Unfortunately when I set in "Users and Groups" module settings the "External password-checking program" to ...
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2answers
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password protect apache user directory using system passwords
I have set up Apache to check user passwords using these modules:
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule ...
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1answer
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Can't save DB password in BDE Admin v5.01 (c. 1998)
I have a legacy version of Goldmine running which uses BDE to connect to an SQL2005 server. I'm moving the goldmine application and its database onto a new server and all is fine with the exception of ...
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1answer
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Password History Storage and Variability Comparison
I believe this situation would be similar to many others out there, so maybe some of you can shed some light...
Supposedly, when making password changes through MS exchange every 90 days, you cannot ...
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3answers
131 views
Password Policy seems to be ignored for new Domain on Windows Server 2008 R2
I have set up a new Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller, and have attempted to configure the Default Domain Policy to permit all types of passwords. When I want to create a new user (just a ...
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3answers
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Is there a way to make many AD Users change their password at next logon? Rather than setting this for each user one at a time?
I want practically all of my AD users in my organization to change their password the next time they log in. I have roughly 160 users. I would also like to not include a few select members. Is there a ...
2
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3answers
107 views
Change local admin password. Impacts on Oracle and Citrix?
I need to change the local admin password on some Citrix and Oracle servers. These servers are in production.
Then we will start using a secure password procedure, and change them every X month.
...
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1answer
79 views
Cannot connect to mySQL because of invalid settings
I'm new to xampp, and have it installed on a Windows 7 machine. Earlier, I was able to at least get the login page for phpMyAdmin, but it was not taking username of "root" and no password, so I ...
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1answer
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extract iis saved password
In IIS6 settings for a domain, under the Directory Securty » Authentication and access control » Enable anonymous access, there's typically a user name and password supplied specifying the ...
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0answers
108 views
Log in successful in MySQL but fail in phpMyAdmin
I'm having a problem with my MySQL / phpMyAdmin couple. I can log in MySQL but when I try to log in phpMyAdmin the error returned is "#2000 Cannot log in to the MySQL Server" . I'm running Windows ...
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0answers
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ssh accepts only the half password
my passwort for login into ssh has 16 characters. but I can login if I only type the first 8 carachters of the password ...
I did this in /etc/login.defs:
PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999
PASS_MIN_DAYS 0
...
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1answer
305 views
Oracle Solaris 11 x64 root password?
I have installed OS 11 x64 on a pc to evaluate if this could be my new system for a home storage array of 48TB. I have a very basic problem: I somehow cannot access root with the admin password ...
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2answers
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User Cannot Change Password
I am having a situation where I need to restrict the user access to change their password in Active Directory (Windows Server 2008 Standard) environment. What I need is to check the Account Options ...
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0answers
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“Password Server: Stopped” on Mac OS Lion Server. Stops with error -1 during startup
Since I've restored the Open Directory from an archive because my Server crashed and the DB was corrupt. The password server does not start anymore.
The log looks like this:
Feb 14 2012 21:41:20 ...
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2answers
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Changing Windows password policy [closed]
We currently have the almost defacto standard of requiring complex passwords on our Windows AD domain. But this XKCD cartoon caught my eye a few months ago when it came up on Coding Horror (I think):
...
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3answers
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Your thoughts on managing passwords in a corporate server environment
Good evening,
I'm thinking about implementing some way to manage passwords for our Linux/Windows servers based solely on security concerns and an ever growing number of servers.
How do you do it? ...
5
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2answers
231 views
Are there huge drawbacks to using an excel 2010 document for password management?
At my old job, we used an open-source, (IMO) secure method for managing network infrastructure, and other important hosts' passwords [with Keepass]. At my new job however, it seems like they're using ...
1
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2answers
156 views
SSH on Debian: Password prompt hang
Alright so a friend is having an issue on his SSH login prompt where the username prompt responds instantly (right when you connect VIA ssh), but the password prompt (right after you enter the ...
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1answer
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How to access setup of this router? [closed]
I have this no-name router:
(that’s UIS1400 on the sticker)
It has an IP address of 192.168.1.1 and identifies itself as ISSCFG when requesting the username/password combo. How do I access setup ...
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0answers
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Which password entropy for MS-CHAPv2
I am looking at connecting in a reasonably secured way mobiles to an enterprise WiFi network.
The current solutions would be user certificates on the mobiles (they are unfortunately exportable) or ...
1
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0answers
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How do I manually perform a password check using AIXpert?
One of the AIXpert tools is to perform a check of the root password against a dictionary (usually /etc/security/aixpert/dictionary/English). If I want to run this check manually, how would I do it?
...
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4answers
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MySQL wants a password but it's empty
mysql -uroot
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
mysql -uroot -p
Enter password: <-- leave blank, hit enter without entering anything
...
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3answers
362 views
Managing service passwords with Puppet
I'm setting up my Bacula configuration in Puppet. One thing I want to do is ensure that each password field is different. My current thought is to hash the hostname with a secret value that would ...
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1answer
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Expired “authentication token” for user with deleted password
The Setup:
1) The user's password was deleted with "passwd -d " command
2) The user has cron jobs running
The Problem:
Once every 30 days (default password expiration policy) the cron fails with an ...
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0answers
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Tomcat 7.0.16 not accepting password for webapp
I am trying to set up Tomcat to password protect an entire webapp, but when I get the password prompt, it's not accepting the username/password I'm providing to it (just keeps prompting for the ...
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2answers
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How does changing a GPG encryption key's passphrase work?
I know that I can do (edit: fixed this; I'm interested in gpg NOT openssh)
gpg --edit-key
...to change my passphrase for my key, but I'm not sure what this means.
If I'm encrypting data on box A ...
1
vote
1answer
212 views
How to migrate windows users and retain passwords?
I am moving a web application from one server to another, where users log in with Windows accounts (local server accounts, not AD). I want the migration to be as smooth as possible, but re-creating ...
2
votes
1answer
281 views
How secure is IPsec w/RSA but without XAuth username/passwords?
I'm using pfSense 2.0 and have an IPsec VPN configured (which uses the Raccoon IPsec daemon).
I'm connecting to the VPN using my iPhone (iOS 5).
However, the iPhone doesn't allowing saving of XAuth ...
7
votes
2answers
252 views
What's the best solution to manage root password of thousands servers
I'm a system administrator. In the production environment I need to manage thousands of servers. My colleagues and I uses a central manage server and distribute its public key through other servers. ...
2
votes
2answers
353 views
How does the Task Scheduler save passwords on Windows 7?
If I save a password for a scheduled task, or in a service's logon credentials, is it safe?
It seems to me that Windows saves this password encrypted somehow, but since Windows has to decipher it, so ...
4
votes
1answer
144 views
LDAP passwords encryption (userPassword attribute)
I'm trying to import passwords from an LDAP to a MySQL database. When I look at the userPassword attribute for the known password test I get this:
userPassword:: ...
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2answers
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Xampp: How to change your Tomcat default user and password?
I have recently installed Xampp, and I am now learning JSP but after copying my .jsp file into the required file and starting Tomcat it won't let me access the manager without a user and password.
...
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1answer
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debian: cannot change password
As the root user, I can change the password:
hussie:/home/claudiu# passwd
Enter new password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
As a non-root user I cannot:
...
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1answer
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how to remove password from pdf documents? [closed]
I recently bought membership to a online course. It has hundreds of PDFs, and each PDF has a password, a DIFFERENT password at that. It is too late to get a refund, and I plan to use that knowledge ...
2
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4answers
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Can I change a user password in Linux from the command line with no interactivity?
I have a specific use case where I would really like to be able to change a user's password with a single command with no interactivity. This is being done in a safe fashion (over SSH, and on a system ...
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3answers
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Registered password filter on Windows 2008 never fires
I've written a custom password filter for Windows Domain Controllers (a passfilt.dll) and registered it according to the instructions (put it in the system32 folder and updated the registry key)
But ...
