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ShadowProtect and Image Replication with ShadowStream
I'm not sure if anyone here has made any real use of ShadowProtect software, more specifically, the ShadowStream server that can be used to replicate images and incremental s over the web to your ...
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Change password hashing algorithm for SuSE users from blowfish to MD5
I have a network of roughly 1000 SuSE machines with 20-200 users on each. The password hashing algorithm used is the default i.e. blowfish. In order to check, whether a user has used a dictionary word ...
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FreeNX shadow session
I have FreeNX server (Ubuntu 10.04) installed and users can log in just fine. The problem arises when users would like to shadow a session. It plain and simple does not work, although the user who's ...
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PostFix SASL with saslauthd and shadow
On debian, I got postfix SMTP authentication almost working :
I do :
perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("username\0username@domain.com\0password");'
and get my encoded indentification
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How to generate a /etc/shadow compatible password for Ubuntu 10.04?
How are passwords generated that are used by Ubuntu 10.04? I know that they use SHA 512 as hashing algorithm, but I figure that there is some sort of salting done. I need to generate such a password ...
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Could not connect to FreeNX server using Desktop--->Shadow
I have installed FreeNX server on ubuntu 10.04 Desktop and I could connect to the system remotely with NXClient selecting "UNIX" and "GNOME". I want to use the 'shadow' feature of NX and I could not ...
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Linux equivalent for Windows shadow copies
In Linux is there an equivalent for Windows shadow copies? I would like to use this for a small setup nothing big but it would be nice to have some type of functionality like shadow copies.
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RHEL not accepting any passwords
I have RHEL 5 on virtual machine installed.
I was creating the new user by making entry in /etc/passwd.
I deleted the /etc/shadow file and used pwconv command to make new shadow file.
Now when i ...
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MySQL: Permit user to change his/her _own_ password
On a webserver there is a MySQL-service running, providing databases for the users of the server. Each user has it's own DB and it's own password and the right so INSERT/SELECT/UPDATE/DROP tables in ...
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Restore passwd for root on a server
I have a DVR server with linux embeded. It has some telnet functions but i don't have the password for it (the chinese manufacturer refuses to give me the ...
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What is the `shadow` group used for?
On my Ubuntu 9.10 system, there's a shadow system group. There does not appear to be any user assigned to this group at all. The only files that I can find belonging to this group are /etc/shadow and ...
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How should someone create an encrypted password for /etc/shadow?
I am setting up a new account on a Linux box for Subversion repository access, and can send the password to the new user. However, I think there was a command line utility for this new user to encrypt ...
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Diskless login with Linux/OpenSolaris
Is it possible to enable a Linux or OpenSolaris based server to process standard unix login requests without spinning up the hard drive holding the root partition?
I have a Nexenta-based (1) server ...
