A password is a collection of characters that is used, usually in conjunction with a username, as a means of authentication.
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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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How to manually start and re-start Apache with mod_wsgi powering a password protected Python WSGI app?
I'm working on a project where I have to meet some regulatory requirements that require at least 3 out of 5 authorized users to start a backend web service that handles very sensitive information ...
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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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using git on DOS command line asks for password - but not when using TortoiseGit or gitBash
I would like to use the DOS command line to enter the command: git clone "git_path.git" myDir
It asks me to enter a password which I would like to avoid.
I usually use TortoiseGit to do all git ...
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Windows 7 - store network password
Windows 7 keeps asking for a password every time I mount a webdav.
I don't want to store a password in a .bat file because it's so insecure.
Is there any way to force system store it? Manually ...
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How to properly configure OS X Server 10.7.4 for SSH (password)?
Is there a setting somewhere that overrides the user password for SSH? Whenever I try to login via password to my os x server I get an error message in secure.log ->
Failed password for < ...
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Migrate user from old Fedora (2) to new (14) instance - 32bit to 64bit, /etc/shadow difference
I've followed the guide going around about migrating linux user accounts over to a new system. All seemed to go ok, I didn't toast the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow files and home directories look ...
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XenApp Console - Lost Administrator Password
Running MF 4.5 using XenApp Advanced Config Console.
I am administrator on the system but not configured for the console.
Is there any way to gain access to the console as the previous Citrix
Admin ...
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openQRM nagios password reset
Right so,
basically the story is that to test a XenServer environment from citrix I deployed a openQRM install from SVN to a ubuntu 10.4 install (on a ESX Environment)
All went well installs, I can ...
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Password problem while creating domain
I'm freshman so far in server management stuff but this seems to be clearly against logic. After updating my Windows Server 2008 Standard 32bit, installing DNS server and AD DS I wanted to create ...
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Smartcard Sharepoint Password prompt
I work in an organization that uses smartcard login. Passwords are not be used.
When opening an attachment in Sharepoint, we are prompted with a username/password dialog. Clicking cancel will allow ...
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using Merak password policy with Plesk
i have a problem when creating a mailbox with plesk on icewarp merak mail server latest version, when i enable the password policy,i need that because when i enable enable just dictionary on plesk it ...
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Backup and Reset Windows VPS password
We do have an option like "Password Reset disk" for desktops. I like to know is there any similar option available for Windows VPS other than contacting the service provider control panel?
I like to ...
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How are SMTP AUTH credentials stolen and how to prevent it?
We run a mail system for some thousands users and from time to time we get a spam flood from one of our users' account.
When that happens we see connections from multiple IP addresses of foreign ...
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Error # 1045 - Cannot Log in to MySQL server -> phpmyadmin
We have installed PHPMyAdmin on a windows machine running IIS 7.0.
We are able to connect to MySQL using command-line, But we are not able to connect using PHPMyAdmin.
The error displayed is: Error ...
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Is it possible to change freeswitch user password on hot?
Is it possible to change freeswitch user password on hot? I mean I have freeswitch running and wish to change 1000's password from 1234 to something else without restarting freeswitch?
I an changing ...
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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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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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password protect apache vhost + reverse proxy
I wish to create a password protected vhost for selected clients (clients.mysite.com)
We have a windows reverse proxy with some vhosts (www, static, secure). I am not using htaccess files as this is ...
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password protected directory causing 401 errors for flash uploader
I have quite a basic setup
<Directory "/var/www/example.com/public">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Access
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/users
Require valid-user
...
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watchguard fb x10 and x15 password reset
Is it possible to reset the password on watchguard fb x10 and x15 devices without clearing the config? We have 2 of these devices, they appear to have a serial port but not sure if that provides a ...
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(windows) reset or change username & password for a login to another computer (samba/linux) on the LAN
When you open up the 'Network' window on windows, and you see computers and or network shares for the workgroup, well, I accidentally input the wrong username / password for the computer it is ...
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MOSS 2007 credential prompt x3 followed by a blank web page
So I've spent most of the day trying to figure out why a MOSS 2007 site hosted on one of our servers will display fine to some client computers while others get prompted for username/password three ...
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Does redhat5 servers support md5 encrypted passwords?
We need to integrate all our systems but we are still running redhat5 based systems.
It is terribly hard to fond documnatation on that on the 'net. The systems which still use rh52 have the man ...
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Roaming profile is not loaded when user's password expires and is changed
Our password policy makes users change pw every 30 days, when this happens they sometimes find they are logged on with a local profile and none of their settings. This generally only happens when the ...
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Trying to use Digest Authentication for Folder Protection
StackOverflow users suggested I try my question here.
I'm using Server 2008 EE and IIS 7. I've got a site that I've migrated over from XP Pro using IIS 5.
On the old system, I was using IIS Password ...
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How to create KeyStorePass in server.password In jboss
I am using Jboss4.2.2 configuration for Configured Identity with Password Based Encryption (PBE) can you any one tell me about what is use of server.password ,and how to creaed it.
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How to change IBM WebSphere Network deployment passwords?
How i can change the following for IBM WebSphere Network Deployment :
1- Deployment Manager Administrative console password
2- Application Server Password
Note : OS is UNIX-AIX
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How can I bulk reset windows service passwords across a service farm?
My company supports a number of windows services which use integrated security/windows authentication to manage their connections to the database. So these windows service all run with a special ...
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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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“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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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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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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OpenLDAP, SASL and non-cleartext password storage
I'm working on a setup where postfix and cyrus-imap do proxy authorization against openldap (my setup is here http://1nw.eu/!cD ). I love this solution, it's a lot more elegant that using saslauthd. ...
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How to reset password on Kyocera FS-1920 printer
We are using this model in an office network environment with MacbookPros running Snow Leopard 10.6.7, the printer is connected by cable to a wifi router, we can print through wireless connection and ...
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fine-grained password policy with prompt user to change password before expiration
I have defined the "prompt user to change password before expiration" setting to 14 in the Default Domain GPO and then create a fine-grained password policy "Test Password Policy" with an expiration ...
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Proxy authentication with password expiring after some hours?
I have installed squid and webmin on an ubuntu server. All is working fine with basic Proxy Authentication set up but I would like to have the passwords expired after 4 or 5 hours so the user needs to ...
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Samba password not persisting
I have a samba on debian setup with the following smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
# Debug logging information
log level = 2
max log size = 50
debug timestamp = yes
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Creating a Password reset disk on Windows server 2008 R2 using an external hard drive
I started creating a reset password disk on my windows 2008 r2 server using an external hard drive which I have formated. The process starts as follows=-
-Go to start
-Open control panel
-Go to ...
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What is the USEPWQUALITY field in /etc/sysconfig/authconfig for?
I googled this and strangely could not find anything about it.
I am trying to configure ldap and kerberos authentication for a fedora 17 client and in troubleshooting I noticed this was set to yes ...
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Users passwords are not remembered in Outlook with Exchange 2010 SP2 server
When I am setting up users accounts on their client machines, the inserted password just won't get remembered, even though the check has been set in "Remember password"
The clients are both Outlook ...
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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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Double password in Directory Server
anybody knows how to implement a second password in an LDAP, so it's policies are different from the userPassword attribute ? The idea is to use it as a non-login password (for instance to "sign" a ...
