Questions tagged [password]
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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On Ubuntu, with nmcli, how to properly enter a valid password for wifi connection with 802-1x, without plaintext password saving
In my company, a Wi-Fi access point with 802-1.x authentication has been setup.
I can successfully connect to the access point with the nmcli command line like this
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Forbid characters in Ubuntu password
How can I forbid an user to set a password with e.g. the german Umlaut characters äöüÄÜÖß on a Ubuntu 22.04 ?
Even the non-Ubuntu pam regex module can only regex on usernames and not on passwords.
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ProxyJump asks for the same password twice
For my work, I have to connect to a remote server. The connection is via a simple SSH and with only one password (no authentication file is needed).
For more clarity, I connect like this:
Do ssh user@...
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Which is the correct capability in Courier SMTP config to get user's password (encryption type)
MySql: 8.0.34-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
I have followed this guide: Postfix With Courier IMAP Mail Server Installation (unfortunately they do not answer questions).
I had to change the encryption method for ...
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pbkdf2 password on grub doesn't work on my Ubuntu 22.04 Vm
I installed a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on a VirtualBox VM. After install process, I configured pbkdf2 as explained here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Passwords. I also verified grub.cfg after I ...
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Reset password on IPMI HP LO 100
I need to reset password on LO 100. Server HP ProLiant DL120 G6.
If i use lo100cfg.exe from SmartStart Scripting Toolkit i have error "The Microsoft IPMI WMI provider may not be installed ...
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Disabling password authentication
Suppose I want to allow SSH authentication only, and disable password authentication.
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config I've typically done this:
PasswordAuthentication no
But in some answers people recommend ...
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Strange hash lengths in OpenLDAP
I recently went through all the hashes stored in an LDAP instance I have access to and noticed something strange that I can't explain.
Despite all the hashes being marked as SSHA (which should be ...
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Why does my Dell server BIOS asks for the BIOS password during a regular reboot?
I have a Dell PowerEdge T350 server. I enabled TPM and Secure Boot as well. For these I needed to specify a BIOS password (which I would have done anyway). What startles me is that the server keeps ...
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phpmyadmin unable to login
Over the past couple of days I have usually not been able to login to phpMyadmin, but once I was able to. Either I get a blank screen of this message: This page isn’t working xx.xxx.xxx.xxx is ...
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Docker WSL on Windows 11 - Ubuntu user
According documentation for installing docker on Windows I have installed WSL with its Ubuntu dist. Next step should be set up user and password for Ubutnu. So according documentation I open Ubuntu ...
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Ansible playbook can not connect to remote user through ssh => unreachable & permission denied
I'm building a complete solution to setup and harden our vps (ubuntu 22.04) with bash script and Ansible playbooks.
What I want to do is the following:
Create a custom group "sudogroup" ...
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How to get password without changing it in linux server
I have linux server ubuntu 20.04
Any command to show you password belong to user ? or a file in server which can show passwords?
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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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Unable to login as root user
[Ubuntu server]
I was able to login to the server just fine for days. And now I cannot login with the root user with password and private key both are not working.
Luckily I am currently logged in as ...
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Changing Microsoft Active Directory Password from Debian 11 server
Bonjour,
We running an on premise Microsoft active directory DAP system on Windows Server 2016.
On the side, we also have several Debian 11 running web applications and we would like to move the ...
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SSH will not use password authentication, still tries disabled methods
I'm running Fedora 36 Workstation with OpenSSH server 8.8p1. I want to log on a single remote user and authenticate with their password, but OpenSSH seems determined not to let me. I've tried every ...
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'user ... is not allowed to execute .... as root on ... ' - even with SUDO privileges but not sure why?
I am in the processing of installing singularity using the terminal on my Linux Mint computer (Ubuntu).
I have the following command:
sudo apt-get update
The computer then asks me to enter my ...
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SSH authenticate with publickey,password or publickey,none
On my SFTP-Server I want to allow only login via public key AND password
OR (if and ONLY IF user has no password) by only public key
I set the following in the the sshd_config:
AuthenticationMethods ...
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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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Nextcloud ignores openLDAP password policy
I have a NextCloud server which is connected to an openLDAP server. All users can change their passwords which should follow a password policy. For users which only have a NextCloud account, this ...
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htpasswd sets incorrect password when the password has special characters
The Problem
I am attempting to update passwords for a large list of users using htpasswd. I am using a csv file to pull in the new passwords.
When the script runs it appears to successfully update the ...
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Can I recover a db password?
For our project in GCP, the app has a production Postgres db instance, we don't have the current password, therefore we can't access the db other than through the app. If we change the password, then ...
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Is there any way to automate ssh login, without sshpass or expect?
The context here is that I have a series of embedded Linux systems at work. They do not have internet access. They are frequently re-imaged. I do not control the OS image and the owning team is not ...
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Encrypt SVN issue
could anyone advise how to encrypt SVN , Plan to encrypt or disable the SVN from asking if unencrypted passwords should be stored? We never want a user to be able to do that.
Would encrypting the ...
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Fine Grained Password Policy Not Taking Effect - have to wait for next password change?
I have set a Fine Grained Password Policy with maximum password age of 180 days along with other settings that are similar to existing password policies.
I set the precedence number to a lower number ...
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Can I provide any kind of "hint" for change AD domain password procedure?
We are changing password policy in company.
I would like to provide some kind of "company password policy rules" hint to user when user is changing his password using CTRL+ALT+DEL on Windows ...
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kinit Password Expire Warning
I've a Ubuntu desktop client joined to an Active Directory 2008 R2 domain.
I need to use "kinit" command on Linux to determine when a user password will expire. That's my way to go due to ...
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Roundcube does not take password for user at login [closed]
I have roundcube and docker-mailserver in docker containers. I've managed to make change of password possible by roundcube password plugin. I created 'mailbox' table and added two columns: 'username' ...
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Why does WHM / cPanel keep saying my password is weak and must be 65 strength at least?
I've been trying to create my very first account on https://trycpanel.net/wwwacctform.html, but I've faced a weird error.Basically, I want to set a password for my account. But, it keeps saying it's ...
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Management of password disable server
This question is just for curiosity. I am studying a bit of server administration and have seen many people saying that having passwords is a bad idea and they should be disabled. But my question is: ...
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Error trying to reset service account password
Some background:
I installed Windows Server Essentials and ran the Essentials Configuration Wizard, which created a new AD forest with a single domain.
However, I needed the AD from a previously-...
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Hosting provider requires giving out server's admin password because of Microsoft audit
I am using a Windows OS VPS from a smaller, local provider for 1 year, everything was good until I started to license a MSSQL Web from the provider itself. They ask me to share my OS's admin password ...
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Let an unattended script connect from windows to an applaince with ssh password
I'm creating a script that will run unnatended on Windows. The script needs to execute commands via SSH on an appliance. The appliance does not support public/private key authentication only password ...
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Accept both MD5 and SHA512 hashes is /etc/shadow
I recently upgraded debian server with many users to a recent version. The old server used MD5 password hashes (the shadow passwords begin with $1$) and new one is configured to use SHA-512.
I want to ...
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SSH connection works for root but not user; fails after "Trying private key"
I'm setting up password-free ssh connection to a debian remote server. I've generated a key on my local machine and placed the key in both /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and /home/user/.ssh/...
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How can the SPICE password of a libvirt+kvm+qemu virtual machine be changed while the machine is running?
I have a virtual machine that is running on a KVM+QEMU stack with libvirt. The VM is using a qxl or virtio display and has a spice graphics listening on a port.
I'd like to change the password (in ...
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My Mac's password refuses to change
I work for a large corporation, and I work on a Macbook Pro. The company has a fancy arrangement where the password I use to connect to the VPN is "synched" to the password I use to log on ...
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Removing additional password field from ssh login on Ubuntu 20
I just bought a Yubikey a few days back. I have tried to use the key to login to SSL without a password. I have it working, but it displays an error and shows interactive auth prompts.
The only real ...
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Can't change virtualmin / webmin password [closed]
I want to change the Webmin login password. The one that you use to log in with when you connect to 10000 port. I have tried several ways. The password will change but at the login, I can only log in ...
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Change postgres password
I've forgotten my postgres password for my local install (Ubuntu 20.04).
I have postgres installed and running
henry@henry-Apollo:/$ service postgresql status
● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL RDBMS
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Allow restricted user to change their own password
Recently I have followed the articles below, however, the passwd file that I copied to a dir in the users `‘home`` dir.
However, when the new credentials are parsed into passwd, it ends up with the ...
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How can I reset share passwords for WD Sharespace using root in SSH?
I have a Western Digital ShareSpace Disk Array NAS (Same one in this manual : https://docs.rs-online.com/49a1/0900766b80ce7e97.pdf )
The system has an existing number of shares, with a lot of files ...
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How can you update the password for an AWS ECR repo in Kubernetes?
I created a private docker registry using AWS ECR. I want to use it with a Kubernetes cluster managed by Rancher, but the password to the registry is changed by AWS every 12 hours. How do I keep it ...
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How to manage the keys in my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server? (login without requiring password each time on a particular machine)
I am trying to follow this answer to login to my server via ssh without typing my extremely long password each time:
https://serverfault.com/a/241593/295203
Right now I have 6 keys in my ...
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Use bcrypt password hashing with OpenLDAP (slapd)
I have an OpenLDAP LDAP server on Debian 9 (through the slapd package, v2.4.44). We use crypt for password authentication. Currently the scheme is SHA512: $5$....
The setup is pretty much as described ...
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Password security of encrypted SSH private key: How to read round number or costfactor of bcrypt
Here https://security.stackexchange.com/a/52564 you can read that newer OpenSSH versions use bcrypt for protecting the keyfile. Security of bcrypt depends on the costfactor see https://security....
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Minimum Password length: Getting error when length conforms to minimum
trying to determine why my machine is enforcing a minimum 15-char password when it appears it's set to 14. We have a GPO that sets the length to 14, so here's what I see on the machine (should ...
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When using rsh i'm getting prompt for the password, but other SLES12 servers are working without prompting password
[ 2 root ] $ cat /etc/securetty
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# This file contains the device names of tty lines (one per line,
# without leading /dev/) on which root is allowed to login.
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tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
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AD password maxed out at 16 char
One of my client have this issue where we can't create password longer than 16 chars. I just found this out because we switched to using long passwords for all our client domain admins. I have been ...
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