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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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haproxy ssl password protected private key

Usage: Haproxy as SSL termination Requirement: Our private keys are password protected and we are not allowed to remove the password for the private key Problem: If i run the following command ...
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Users created in Kickstart unable to authenticate

Thanks to the answers to this question, I've been happily generating Kickstart files for Scientific Linux 6 and 7 for the past 5 years. However, we're now starting to build out some test systems with ...
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Stop Google forcing a password change on newly created accounts

I'm in the process of implementing Google's GSuite Password Synch on a Windows Server 2016 AD system. I've installed the Cloud Directory Sync software which successfully creates new users in GSuite ...
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Can I pre-hash a Windows password and pass the hash when creating the account?

I am building some Windows VMs with Vagrant, and the Vagrant provisioner will create some users. I'd like to be able to commit the passwords for those users to source control, but obviously I don't ...
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Restrict access to a subdomain with web.config on IIS7?

I need to password protect a "dev" subdomain on a server with the web.config file on IIS7. I don't have access to anything besides the files and web.config, so I can't install modules or anything else ...
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permission to change Windows password in non AD environment

We have a computer running Windows Server 2012 R2, which is not member of any domain, and a web application running on this server. Users of the application are set up as local Windows users of the ...
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LDAP with SSSD: force user to change password - 'ShadowLastChange' not working

I have CentOS6, with LDAP user authentication, using OpenLDAP and SSSD. I'm trying to force user to change the password. According to this ServerFault question I tried to set ShadowLastChange to 0, ...
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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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openldap, nss-pam-ldapd, ppolicy and expired password notification

I am Mr. Arigita, from Spain. I’m stuck with a problem with nslcd and I need help. Before writing here I spent many days searching the web for a solution to my problem without success: I have a ...
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Jenkins on Windows: How to encrypt the httpsKeyStorePassword in jenkins.xml?

I'm running Jenkins, currently 2.89.3 on Windows, and have managed to configure SSL (...hooray!...). Problem now is that I want to encrypt the -httpsKeyStorePassword defined in jenkins.xml, but ...
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Manage passwords stored in web configs located on a server

We have a number of servers that perform different functions and every 60 days we do password refreshes. Normally this isn't an issue but we have these passwords stored in web configs all over the ...
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Are passwords sent via a bash script retrievable?

As part of running a backup script for a linux server, I have commands like mysqldump within a bash script which contain the mysql root password, and certain ftp server passwords. Are these ...
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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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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. project-prod-ds....
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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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'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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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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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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Error when a Domain Admin needs a user to change his password at next log on: "configuration information could not be read from the domain controller"

An administrator of a domain network with a single Microsoft Active Directory 2019 Domain Controller needs to reset password for certain domain users. To do so, he selects the user in from the list ...
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Active Directory User Group Delegate Reset Password

I want to enable users to reset their AD passwords on our Windows Server 2012 through our Jira server. In order to make this happen, I added an AD user group with delegated control from the top-level ...
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PAM accepting any current password when changing LDAP password

I have a Centos-7.6 system, using PAM to authenticate LDAP users. I've managed to force an LDAP user to change their password, by setting shadowLastChange to 0, so their password must be changed. But ...
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Azure AD password reset error - calling 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<username>' returns Status 400 Bad Request

Our AD management code was working for more than 12 months between mid 2018 and mid 2019. Suddenly, with no code change at our side, it stopped working for password reset. The last line of code ...
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Using powershell can a non-admin user, change password of a user of remote machine which has windows operating system if existing password is known?

I have 2 machines. From machine A i log in as a user without admin privileges. I need to change the password of another user say BUser who is administrator in machine B by providing the existing old ...
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Change account password remotely via Plink

Here's my current predicament: I need to change the password to a user account on 2000 devices running Ubuntu 16.04. I want to do this remotely via Plink rather than SSH. On all these appliances, the ...
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EMC BIOS default password

I have an EMC server that hasn't been used for a while and I am trying to repurpose it. I am having trouble getting into the BIOS as it seems to be locked behind a password by default. Hardware: EMC ...
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`runas` without password for hundreds of users

I'm working with a tool that runs programs on behalf of hundreds users on multiple machines. This works fine on Linux because I can just run as "root" and use su or sudo to impersonate them without a ...
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Debian 8; Run sudo in a screen session at boot without password prompt?

I want to create a startup/boot script that allows me to run a couple of Screen sessions. This I have been able to achieve through creating a script on /etc/init.d/bashfilehere But when I need to run ...
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Solaris 8 - Root Password Reset Still Showing Expired

I have a Solaris 8 2/02 SPARC test server that has an issue with the root account. I am able to log in with this account but every time I do, I am met with this message... WARNING: Your password has ...
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password using Keyvault in ARM template Azure

i want to assign password for a node using keyvault. i want to use a single arm template to get password from keyvault. here i have examples which use template file and a seperate parameter to get the ...
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Reset Passwords of LDAP-Users at the first login

I have an LDAP Installation running on an Centos7 system. I want to create a big number of users. Those users will get a default password, so I want them to change the password at the (only)first ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - allow more time to reset password

Good morning everyone! I apologize if this has been asked - I have tried searching every where I can think of, to include the search bar here on serverfault. I work as an IT technician at a high ...
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CentOS 7 - root password works only once

I have a very strange issue here. My root password works only once, and as soon as I log out, it ceases to function. Subsequent attempts to log in come back as ‘login incorrect’. I have to drop back ...
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Skip password authentication on Dovecot when client certificate provided

Using Dovecot version 2.1.7, I've gotten client certificates working with fairly little effort, and at this point I can choose between having password authentication after the certificate check or ...
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MariaDB 5.5 on Slackware 14 need to change to new password format

Strangely, this worked fine for a while, but my computer rebooted recently and now my php apps won't work: mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using the old insecure authentication. Please use an ...
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reset lost administrator password for Windows Server 2003 (AD)?

I've been contacted by a local golf course that has lost login access to their Windows 2003 server (suspected cause is a password change by a disgruntled ex-manager). When I visited the site, they ...
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Passwordless public key is not working

this is my fist help ask here despite being a daily reader in order to learn. I am working on a Unix environment (both Solaris and Aix servers) and my public key suddenly stopped working after months....
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AuthType Digest Realm Password White Space Issue

I have an issue where I am trying to set a test directory to authenticate using the AuthType Digest. I have been able to successfully complete this but only when the AuthName of .htaccess is one ...
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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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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? I'...
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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 user/...
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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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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 right....
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Linux to Samba Automatical Password Synchonization

Nothing found at all on the Net: I'm looking up for an automatical synchonization of linux to samba (NOT Samba to Linux) passwords. I wrote a cgi web form that changes this password directly in the ...
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Is Windows Backup sending my password in plaintext?

I have a nightly backup scheduled on Windows 10 to a Synology NAS with its own set of credentials unrelated to users on the Win 10 host. I am using the 'Backup and Restore (Windows 7) legacy' backup ...
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Windows workstation unable to change password change for other accounts

When I do a CTRL-ALT-DEL, then change password, on a workstation in one of my domains, it gives me the option to put in a username. For another domain that I manage, it does not. I assume this is a ...
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How to Reduce Delay in Displaying Incorrect Password message on Domain PC

I've been encountering an issue with domain PCs where it takes a longer time to notify entering of incorrect password. After conducting some research, we identified that the delay is caused due to ...
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Accounts are not locking out after multiple 4771 Kerberos pre-authentication failure events

This seems to be the reverse problem from most things I found on the internet. I am seeing a large number of 4771 Kerberos pre-authentication failure events being generated and the error code is 0x18. ...
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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 nmcli device wifi connect "...
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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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