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Bypassing CERT_HAS_EXPIRED leads to 401 Unauthorized

In our Next.js app, axios requests work in client components (using useEffect) but fail with a CERT_HAS_EXPIRED error from server components. As a workaround in development, we run ...
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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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How to force RDP to accept my stored credentials, when my computer is under a domain?

So i've setup TERMSRV/* in the Group Policy Editor, but RDP will still not allow me to use saved credentials because the computer is under a domain. I found this by reading the description in the ...
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Powershell: How to read secure strings from textfile with windows service

I saved credentials of my vSphere environment to text files with the Powershell ConvertFrom-SecureString. I want to use this credentials in my powershell script using the following command: $...
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TCP capture show different user when attempting SMB connection

I'm attempting to map a SMB share on an Isilon server in windows 10. I have Ubuntu and Windows computers on the same network, can mount the SMB fine on the Ubuntu machine. But when trying windows ...
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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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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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Enter network credentials not working when connecting Win to Ubuntu Samba share

A real "Knacknuss"... I have an Ubuntu Server, and setup Samba for Windows to connect. All is working fine but for that one particular Windows computer (Win 10 pro) that can not connect. How ...
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How to prevent compromising the email server if user credentials leaked?

I've been using AWS SES as an SMTP relay (Postfix + Dovecot) for years and now am facing the pausing of sending emails for the second time. We use this combination as an email server for business ...
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Your system administrator does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer

At our office, all of our Windows 7 Clients get this error message when we try and RDP to a remote Windows 2008 Server outside of the office: Your system administrator does not allow the user of ...
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Is there a Windows command line utility to verify user credentials?

On a Windows platform, is there any command line utility that I can pass a username, password domain name to in order to verify the credentials (or possibly give an error that the account is disabled, ...
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How do you store access like ssh root@…

I need to store a large number of accesses to remote machines like '''ssh root@serverIP/DNS''' how do you store such entries and quickly connect to them? I am using macOS Catalina. Extremely grateful ...
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Can windows credentials be stored for 'All Users'?

I am looking for a way to store windows credentials for 'All Users' as opposed to individually-named Users in Win7. Issue - we have a company server that is being accessed by multiple users. Each user ...
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How to manage stored credentials (Windows Vault) for another user than you, e.g. SYSTEM?

When I go to Credential Manager in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, it lets me edit the cached credentials for my account. Is it possible to edit someone else's stored credentials on the same ...
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Where does Credential Manager store credentials on the file system?

I want to clear a users stored credentials on a remote machine. Without having to have the user login and open the Cred manager GUI or run CMDKEY with them logged in. Is there a place on the file ...
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How to get application_default_credentials.json file in GCP?

I'm developing an application locally(python), I want to list the details of all the projects & their instances. In order to perform this, I have generated application_default_credentials.json ...
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How to secure the SQL credentials in a batch file (PowerShell inside) to run a script using sqlcmd

My goal is to create a batch file which performs a SQL (express) DB backup every time it's executed. But I don't want to store a clear password in that batch. Using PowerShell, I successfully created ...
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Credential Manager has been disabled by Administrator and cannot re-enable

I'm having trouble getting a Windows 7 work computer to keep credentials for a mapped drive. Whenever I load Credential Manager, I get "Windows Credentials have been disabled by your Administrator." ...
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Manage Azure App service deployment center FTP users

So as Azure admin of my company I was trying to create an overview of what contributors have created FTP Credentials for app services. It's fine that they create these credentials however I would like ...
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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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Stuck on 'Enable delegation of user credentials' Windows Server Hyper-v 2012 r2

Im trying to setup a Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 r2 server which I've installed, but am having issues connecting to it throught the Hyper-V manager on Windows 10. I have followed various instructions ...
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Azure AD User Permission management without intune

At my current businsees we have Azure AD but we are not paying for intune. I have noticied that some users are able to install programs and others are not. I have checked to see what roles some of the ...
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Network Credentials defaults to old login name [Windows 10 -> Windows Server 2016]

Recently one account on a Windows Server 2016 was renamed through the Computer Management option. From another computer (Windows 10) I want to map a share on that server. My issue is that the default ...
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Why won't RDP accept my stored credentials, and makes me manually enter it every time?

Trying to log in to an Amazon EC2 instance (running Windows Server 2012 R2) via RDP. It works, and I can connect, but having saved the credentials that worked, they never seem to be accepted on ...
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CredentialRetrievalError within ECS container

Problem I have deployed an ECS cluster and am running a job orchestration platform on the cluster. One of the containers of this platform uses the python docker api to pull a container from our ...
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How to reset iLO 4 to default without credentials?

Is there a way to reset iLO (in order to see system health and configuration details) with just a keyboard and a display (no web interface)? If a web interface is an absolute must, then how to reset ...
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Why doesn't Google Cloud Free Trial start after properly filling the form? [closed]

I signed up for the free tier of Google Cloud. I completed the entire process (phone verification, card details, address, cardholder name etc.) I chose account type as business instead of individual, ...
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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 Explorer....
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Specific Domain User Cannot Log into Specific Domain PCs

Good morning, I have an employee who occasionally signs into different computers throughout our office depending where they are working that day (e.g. reception, checkout, etc.) but there are 4 PCs in ...
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After openvpn setup client cannot connect "Cannot load inline certificate file"

Good day to everybody! I have tried recently to install & configure openvpn for my server. I have created certificates, tunneling seems to with fine at lease ifconfig shots that tun0 has been ...
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Sysprep: Does it remove Windows Credentials from an user account?

I have an automated process that's supposed to build out an image and have that image deployed with a user that is setup to run a service. The user needs access to an azure network file share. In ...
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Windows 10 Scheduled Task does not use domain credentials to access network resources

I have a simple task, which for the purposes of testing, consists of a batch file with two lines: whoami >result1.txt copy \\server\share\test1.txt C:\Users\xxx\Documents > output.txt 2> ...
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How can I use provided keys to get root shell access?

I have been given values, for an AWS instance, for the keys of AWSAccessKeyId and AWSSecretKey provided in the hope that I may be able to do some stuff with Apache. Is there any way, on this ...
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EVENTID 4648. Mismatch ,Subject (Standard User), CredentialsUsed (Admin), Target(Localhost)

In the Event ID 4648, The subject's Account Name is the "Standard user". But under the credentials used section, the account name is of the "Administrator" and the Target Server is ...
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Windows authentication across multiple hostnames without multiple credential prompts - is it possible?

I have a web application that utilizes multiple hostnames (see below for an explanation of why it's set up like this - I don't want that to distract from the more general question here). Basically, ...
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Trying to create a Powershell script to connect to a server via smart card

Sorry if this is in the wrong community but it seemed the best. My organization is trying to automate the commands that it has done manually before (Indexing computer storage, etc.). However, we use ...
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Get permission error when restarting Virtual Machine in Azure

Our network engineer left the company for another opportunity and I inherited the role of Network Engineer. I was trying to RDP to one of our Virtual Machine, but could never connect. I want to reboot ...
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Change persistence type of Windows Credentials from "Enterprise" to "Local computer" via cmdkey?

I'm trying to add credentials for remote desktop connection via the cmdkey command cmdkey /add:TERMSRV/myserver /user:MyUser /pass:MyPassword I wanted to check that this added correctly via the ...
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Maximum expiration date of an Azure Service Principal credential password?

If you assign a Azure AD Service Principal to Azure (e.g. Azure Container Registry), what is the maximum expiration date of the credential password for that service principal? Is it 1 year? Can you ...
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Unable to remove network share credentials under 2012 R2 from programmed task

I am used a backup software (under Windows Server 2012 R2) that seems to use smb to write to the remote backup device. I have realized that, upon completion, credentials are "still there" so a ...
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sp_xp_cmdshell_proxy_account on a SQL Server Express

I am trying to find information about if there are limitations in SQL Server Express to not being able to run the sp_xp_cmdshell_proxy_account and adding a proxy account for the cmdshell command? ...
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Scheduled command with protected personal credentials

I'm not sure I have a clear title, but here is my story : I'm working on an Openstack cloud (Openstack is not important here) and I need to set my username/password each time I need to call Openstack ...
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How can I delete stored RADIUS wifi credentials when they are added from the Win10 logon screen?

I was onboarding a new Surface for a VIP and to get it on the intranet to join it to the domain I entered my own RADIUS credentials at the Windows 10 logon screen. Got the device prepped and onboarded ...
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Storing plaintext passwords for SVN

I'm on Windows, using SVN as a part of SharpSVN library. I need to store my passwords in plain text. I tried putting the following in my servers file: store-passwords = yes store-plaintext-passwords =...
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Getting the Network Credentials of a running process?

If a Windows program is run with ‘runas’ using the ‘/netonly’ argument is there any way to see what credentials are being used by it for the network? Similar to the way you might see a process is ...
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Protecting credentials in Desired State Configuration using certificates

I'm new to DSC and trying to figure out how to make it work for us. What I'm stuck on is how the credentials are actually protected. My current understanding is that it isn't all that great. The big ...
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How to embed a user input inside a powershell function?

I am creating a power-shell module with multiple functions , one of which needs a user input in middle of the run. how to use function to request an input without supplying it as a parameter? Is it ...
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Unable to export service account key in Terraform #GCP

I have downloaded the GCP service account key to my local system. In Terraform, I have set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS as a path to this file in the startup-script part of my bastion instance. ...
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Workflow for managing client projects on Google Cloud Platform

I have a number of clients with simple cloud platform needs, usually just a maps API key or API key for some other API. Now that Google is enforcing a link to a billing account for each project, it ...
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Windows Server Backup doesn't work when "Do not allow storage of credentials" GPO enabled

I am getting a Windows Server Backup error which reads... "A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated" Whenever I try to save a backup schedule. In trying to ...