Questions tagged [credentials]
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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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Has March 2015 Patch Tuesday broken 2003 shares?
We have several Windows Server 2003 boxes, and over night, they had their automatic updates installed.
This morning, users cannot access shares they were previously able to, and are prompted for ...
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Storing AWS credentials securely on a personal machine
How can I securely store AWS credentials on personal machines?
In detail:
Everybody in our team requires AWS security credentials for doing administrative tasks (credentials are separated by role). ...
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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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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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Why can a user grant themselves the Log On As A Service right?
This article describes the (relatively laborious) steps you should go through to grant an Active Directory user the Log On As A Service right. However, if I install a service and manually specify my ...
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Protect SFTP Passwords
A number of non-technical users currently manage secure data with FileZilla on Windows. The SFTP credentials are broadly shared in the organization as a result.
I would like to centrally manage ...
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Avoiding shared accounts on an Active Directory environment
Is it possible to somehow force that one and only one account (in the case the account is shared) is logged to an Active Directory environment at any moment?
What we want to do is to discourage the ...
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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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RDP Connectivity to Windows Server 2003 Servers Intermittently Lost After Date Changes
Connectivity via RDP to our Microsoft Windows Server 2003 web and database servers unpredictably drops at varying points after we change the server dates. It usually occurs when we leave the server ...