Questions tagged [password-management]

Procedures, policies and constraints on password entry, lifetime, change, strength, and storage. An essential part of access management, together with policies on other forms of authentication.

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Centralised Password Management Software [closed]

Currently, the company I work for has nothing in the way of password management - everything is in a big excel spreadsheet that everyone has access to. Obviously this has a whole rash of issues ...
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LAPS - Unable to view passwords but able to decrypt

I'm testing Windows LAPS on one test OU with one computer in it. Everything is working as expected, except I'm the only user that is able to view the LAPS managed password. If I run the below, where $...
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LAPS Update-AdmPwdADSchema not listed in AD attributes

Having issue getting AD to see added attributes. (found this - LAPS Update-AdmPwdADSchema doesn't add the attributes - does not say how added. Have ran the scripts to add the attributes. Says they ...
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Change Windows PIN requirements in Intune for an Azure AD-joined PC

I am the part-time admin of a small nonprofit, with a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription. I have been searching through admin.microsoft.com and portal.azure.com, but can't seem to find the ...
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New LAPS - Authorized password decryptor not updating permissions as expected

Created a new group DOMAIN\LapsAdmins. Currently empty. Configured GPO Configure Authorized password decryptors to point to my group DOMAIN\LapsAdmins Forced server1 to create a new encrypted password ...
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Allow self password change using LDAP(s) with Samba4

I am trying to create a webapp to allow users to change their own passwords in Samba4 (perhaps, also in AD), using LDAP(s). But when I try to modify the user password using this code: dn: ........ ...
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Storing Hashed Passwords for Docker and Docker Compose

What is the best way to store passwords and use them in Dockerfile and docker-compose.yaml. Can I store the secrets in a hashed format and make use of it, So that no one can read my real passwords ...
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How can I set the 'password last set' date of an AD account?

In a development environment I want to modify the 'password last set' date of my AD accounts so they won't begin to expire during development phase, but as soon as the environment becomes a production ...
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Lock user account in LDAP (without using ppolicy)

In this answer, is was suggested that the UNIX way of adding a ! in front of the password field would work. I claim that this is not a clean solution. It will not make logins impossible, but merely it ...
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LAPS Update-AdmPwdADSchema doesn't add the attributes

So I've installed LAPS according to THIS article. I've done this on 3 domains so far with great success but on the 4th one, for some reason, the attributes ms-Mcs-AdmPwd and ms-Mcs-...
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Can the Maximum machine account password age be set differently for one OU on a domain controller

In my organization, when we provision a computer one of the steps includes joining our domain. Typically we provision one pc at a time as the need comes up. I would like to get out of this habit and ...
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vaultwarden on a public IP - is it worth to restrict to VPN only?

I feel a bit embarrassed to ask this, because I am not able to figure it out myself. I run a vaultwarden instance (open source bitwarden) on a public VPS on the open Internet. It is properly set up ...
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Postfix + Dovecot with MySQL backend: md5-hashed passwords and CRAM-MD5 auth

My question What are the risks of switching from MD5 to CRAM-MD5 passwords in the database, especially considering the following, and how to approach that for an existing installation (provided I ...
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Automated SFTP transfer using WinSCP - how safe is it to store credentials in Windows environment variables?

I've had to implement an automated SFTP file transfer which requires a username and password. Not wanting to leave the password in a text file / batch script for the world to stumble across, I've ...
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How do I secure the access token, on Linux, to remote, automated secrets stores like Hashicorp Vault?

There seems to be a bit of a "chicken and egg" problem with the passwords to the password managers like Hashicorp Vault for Linux. While researching this for some Linux servers, someone clever asked, ...
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OpenVPN - How to suppress WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this

In OpenVPN GUI, I am getting the red message WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this. I do not want to always re-type my password ...
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How to notify administrators of an Active Directory pwd change?

I don't know much about AD or Windows security. As in this question, I understand that pwd change notification can be useful for both users and for system administrators. As an AD administrator on ...
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php config - generate hashed password manually

I've created a php conf file, which include some user / password infos. For testing purposes I've added the password for the database in plain text. Since this can't be a good idea, I want to change ...
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Is there a password agent for the mysql command-line client?

I use the mysql command line client frequently. Sometimes I wind up typing in my password dozens of times per day, and I'm getting really tired of it. SSH has a neat utility called ssh-agent which ...
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How to run smbpasswd as root on AIX?

I have Hitachi ID Password Manager (formerly p-synch) set up to change the password on (among other systems) an aix 6.1 server running samba. p-synch has the capability of executing additional ...
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How is the "change password at next logon" requirement supposed to work with RDP using Network Level Authentication?

We have a Windows server (2008 R2) with the "Remote Desktop Services" feature installed and no Active Directory domain. Remote desktop is set up to "Allow connections only from computers running ...
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How to remove AdmPwd Permission from BUILTIN\Users (MS LAPS)

I've deployed MS LAPS to manage local admin passwords and all is working fine, except that non-privileged users are able to access the local admin password, in both Powershell and LAPS UI. Running the ...
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"Password never expires" greyed out?

I have domain users in an Azure AD DS. I need to set some of those users with passwords that don't expire. When I go to "Active Directory Users and Computers" on a machine in the domain, the ...
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Why does adding one character to my MySQL password lock me out?

I am able to log in via mysql -u myuser -p mydb -h localhost with this: grant all privileges on mydb.* to myuser@'%' identified by '...
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smbk5pwd overlay on OpenLDAP 2.4

I have an OpenLDAP server and I want to configure the smbk5pwd overlay to make OpenLDAP update the sambaNTPassword and sambaLMPassword attributes automatically when a change occurs on userPassword. ...
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LAPS ms-Mcs-AdmPwd blank or null values

I am writing a script to export all computer LAPS ms-Mcs-AdmPwd values to KeePass to allow historical logging. I have a few machines for whatever reason a few objects have no password set. However I ...
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Can you display/change a message on the Windows 10 "change password" screen?

Does anyone know if it is possible to change the error messages displayed to users when changing their password? Specifically the complexity requires message. If possible I would like to change it to ...
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How to automate FTP user password updates, on a remote IBM z/OS FTP server?

We wish to solve the business problem of how to schedule automated password updates, on a remote FTP server (note: z/OS) over which we have no administrative control, before the password expires. For ...
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How can users change their Active Directory password without Remote Desktop?

In our Active Directory setup, some users will be accessing domain resources (shared folders on the network, specifically) from non-domain computers. Only users from the domain have permission to ...
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Windows Server: Let users change their password remotely without RDP in non domain setup

So what do we have: Windows Server 2019 as file server in a non-domain setup. Users should be able to change their password remotely from their client PCs without requiring the IT-support. What we've ...
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Group Policy "Maximum password age" fails to apply

In my Windows network with all AD servers (still) running Windows 2003, I encounter the following problem: The "Maximum password age" policy apparently does not apply. Even though some of the users ...
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Password Synchronization between two forests or in one forest; using replication or using MIM to synchronize?

So we have got a domain (e.g. contoso.local) which is replicated over 4 DCs. All DCs are in the same Subnet. All users reside in the same OU in this one domain. All Workstations are in their own OU as ...
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could a password policy be dynamic on windows with or without AD

On some windows server I would like to set different password complexity depending for exemple on the password length. Is it possible to make conditions, so I can have a high level of complexity with ...
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Unable to change domain password even if the password is complex

I have a problem with users not being able to change their passwords. When they try to change the password, they get this error: "Your new password does not meet the length, complexity, or history ...
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Bulk Device Management: Generating and storing the username & passwords for many Linux devices

I have a hundred Linux devices (Raspberry Pis) to provision. That includes generating new username/password pairs and storing them for future use. Once they are deployed in the field, I'll need to ...
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Forced to change expired password when using ssh key

I am working in an environment where I have an account on multiple linux machines where accounts and passwords are managed independently (no active directory/LDAP/etc) and passwords expire every 30 ...
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Azure-only banned password list in a hybrid AD environment

I'm currently researching how to set up a banned password list in Active Directory. I'm doing this in a hybrid environment. Unfortunately, right now we're only licensed for Azure AD Free, which is ...
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How do Google,Yahoo and other mail services secure passwords?

How do Google,Yahoo and other top level mail services secure passwords? What technology they are using for securing and storing passwords? How do they manage mail passwords ?
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How to configure password synchronization between two Active Directory Domains with Microsoft Identity Manager PCNS?

I have two domains with a two-ways trust relationship (selective authentication). Microsoft Identity Manager is installed, configured and "Password Change Notification Service" is configured and ...
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Can a user that is not in the Administrators group change the password on a command line

Is it possible for a user that is not in the Administrators group to change his or her domain password in a coommand line, that is, without using ctrl-alt-delete? It seems to me that this is not ...
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Where is my Users Account -> Advanced Tab?

I'm running XP Pro SP-3. I want to manage my user network passwords as in this tab: But for some reason when I go to my user accounts I get a different view and nowhere to get to this feature.
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Postfix/Dovecot and new password protected private key

I've created a CST and private key pair, as said by StartSSL, for my postfix/dovecot Ubuntu 14.04 server, with: openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout mydomain.key -out mydomain.csr On the passphrase ...
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Active Directory password change: Re-Allow current password?

My question is that simple: Can I configure an active directory in a way that when a user wants/needs to change his password, his current one isn't forbidden (if it's in compliance with the current ...
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Masquerade as User in Enterprise Windows Environment

In a large Enterprise Windows Environment. What do IT people do to login as a user if needed? It seems impossible to me to keep user passwords in a large environment. In a Mac environment, you have ...
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How do I input passwords for mysql config editor inside of a dockerfile

Is there a way to create a docker image that needs to use the mysql_config_editor set command with a password without putting the password in the dockerfile and without manually inputting it later in ...
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Enable Password Policy in OpenLDAP 2.4.44

I am trying to enable user password policies in my OpenLDAP 2.4.44 instance based on the osixia/docker-openldap Docker image. Basically, following this description, I have set up following structure ...
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Kerberos with OpenLDAP backend: Password Sync HowTo

The basic setup is an OpenLDAP server. The users are provisioned and the passwords are set. Now we decided to add an MIT KDC for being able to use Kerberos. We configured the MIT KDC to utilize the ...
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How to add pre-hashed password to ejabberd with ansible

I know that I can add users using the ansible ejabberd_user module, but there doesn't seem to be a way to add a user with a pre-hashed password. I want this: - name: create a user if it does not ...
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can I reset the clock on an expired password in AD?

I have a customer who's users all access the solution via RDP and whom are all set to 'password never expires' in AD. We're enforcing a password expiration policy and introducing a self-serve ...
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Is there a way to set up passwordless / passphraseless ssh so can only come from one client?

I know how to set up passwordless / passphraseless ssh. But my understanding is that setting it up that way means that if someone get ahold of the id_dsa file, they can then log in from any machine. ...