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Tool to test a user account and password (test login)
runas /u:yourdomain\a_test_user notepad.exe
The utility will prompt for the password, if the right password has been provided, notepad will launch, if not it will produce error 1326: the username or ...
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In the output of `last`, what does suffix ".d" after an IP address mean?
59.224.XX.178.d is not an IP-address but a hostname, or rather part of it.
Last tries to do a reverse lookup and stores both the resulting hostname and ip-address for the remote host. By default the ...
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how to disable SSH login with password for some users?
Match in sshd_config works well. You should use Match all to end the match block if you're using openssh 6.5p1 or above. Example:
PasswordAuthentication no
Match User root
PasswordAuthentication yes
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Login without running bash_profile or bashrc
You need to a) start bash without source'ing either ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile and b) since such a shell wouldn't be a full login shell / have no tty attached, force ssh to attach a tty:
ssh -t ...
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will hosting provider have access to my dedicated server?
Yes, they will have access to your server. If virtual, they have access through the virtualization console or container root. If physical, IPMI and out-of-band management provide access. They may have ...
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PermitRootLogin is no, I cannot login but why password is asked from user?
Why password is asked when it is not permitted?!
The one of the rules of security is not to tell attacker if something is enabled/disabled. This is just one example. The other is logging in as non-...
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lastLogon vs. lastLogonTimestamp in Active Directory
Use the most recent attribute.
Lastlogon is only updated on the domain controller that performs the authentication and is not replicated.
LastLogontimestamp is replicated, but by default only if ...
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Can't login to SQL Server in Single User mode
Here's a solution I just found to this old issue:
Stop all SQL services
Start with -m
Run MSSQL Management Studio As
administrator
If not started as administrator (as I wasn't), then you'll receive ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 RDP login paste password
Contrary to what the other "answers" for this question say (including the accepted one), there is indeed an easy way to do this, also if you (like me) for different reasons (most likely security ...
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What is the default root password for Zabbix Appliance 3.0?
For Version 3:
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/appliance
States that the default username and password for the front-end is:
Admin
zabbix
and for the console it is
appliance
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lastLogon vs. lastLogonTimestamp in Active Directory
TL;DR - If you want the most accurate logon time, you must query the lastLogon attribute from all domain controllers. If a tolerance ±19 days is acceptable, then you can just read lastLogonTimestamp ...
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What is the default root password for Zabbix Appliance 3.0?
For Version 4 and 4.2 (2019)
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/appliance
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.2/manual/appliance
Frontend username is:
Admin (with capital A)
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Why is my auth.log file empty?
In Ubuntu systems rsyslog handles system logging, redirecting output from several daemons (such as sshd) to their respective logs according to its config.
There are several config files that could ...
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How to configure the login message in Ubuntu?
In my case, I had to clear /etc/update-motd.d/51-cloudguest, which read:
#!/bin/sh
#
# This file is written by the Ubuntu image build process, it is not
# managed by a package. If you want to avoid ...
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AWS: how to log into management console in browser via *username*/password, NOT via *email*/password?
In https://My_AWS_Account_ID.signin.aws.amazon.com/console, the value you are looking for to replace My_AWS_Account_ID is not the username... it's the account name (the account under which the ...
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Failing to connect to server via SSH - "Server refused to allocate pty"
If you have console access
mount devpts /dev/pts -t devpts
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will hosting provider have access to my dedicated server?
In 2000 Microsoft published something very smart and is still (mostly) relevant today.
The 10 Immutable Laws of Security http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc722487.aspx
Rule number three is "If ...
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PuTTY slow connecting to Linux SSH server
I'd also look at your DNS... maybe. Can the server you're connecting to resolve DNS properly? Could you add a temporary host entry with your source IP in the server to test?
See: SSH takes about 30 ...
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Up-to-date alternatives of rssh or scponly
I recommend to just use the common chrooted internal-sftp that is included with most OpenSSH servers. SFTP clients are available on all operating systems so I do not see any problems with adoption.
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Login without running bash_profile or bashrc
None of the above answers can bypass the login shell of ssh. You can pass a full command line, and so it runs the remote shell to process the command and set the working environment for the command. ...
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In SQL Server, how do I create a login for an existing user?
As of SQL Server 2012, there's a T-SQL command to assign existing users to new logins. Create the login, but don't try to do User Mappings (it would fail). Then execute:
use <existing_database&...
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will hosting provider have access to my dedicated server?
Depends on the provider.
Usually if you change the password they don't have access anymore.
However: They have physical access.
They can just take out a disk from your RAID1 and have all your data.
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Slow logon via Remote Desktop to Server 2012 and Smart Card service errors
If you don't have a need to use Smart Cards for authentication, change the Startup Type of the the Smart Card Device Enumeration Service from Manual (Trigger Start) to Disabled. After doing so the ...
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In the output of `last`, what does suffix ".d" after an IP address mean?
The -i makes 'last' show the remote hostname in dots and numbers IP address format instead of trying to display the hostname.
I am not sure what the '.d' suffix is, nor can I find out anything on ...
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Is there any way to log entered password from ssh?
You can visualize the failed user names after you turn up the verbosity of the log in sshd_config¹, but there is no way to see the failed passwords as this could be a potential security issue and ...
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Someone just trying to hack me? login.cgi+wget
Your unwelcome visitor is not trying to hide his attempt to download and run some script on your server.
He may be expecting that, not only you have such login.cgi script in place, it is also not ...
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AD/Kerberos authentication
Presumably DC1 is the domain controller which holds the PDCemulator FSMO role. Accordingly, on every bad password attempt, the authenticating Domain Controller checks with the PDCe before failing the ...
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How to know if a Active Directory user can log in interactively
An LDAP search is not enough, because the ability to perform an interactive logon is controlled by the security policy in the destination computer.
The policy itself ("Allow Interactive Logon") can ...
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How can I edit the welcome message when ssh start?
Could be modifying the /etc/issue file, try this:
Current date: \d Current time: \t System name: \s
Architecture: \m OS build info: \v Hostname: \n
Kernel: \r Number of logged-in ...
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will hosting provider have access to my dedicated server?
If you really need the best privacy you can get, just encrypt the data. As the other answers and comments say, if you don't do that, then there are methods to get the data out of your server.
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