Questions tagged [password]

Question 1

As stated in the title I was wondering if there is a mode to avoid postfix showing clear text passwords and user names exchanges in log files. In my current simple setup, postfix is configured as a ...

Question 2

RHEL 9.4. Running passwd accountName comes back with: passwd Authentication token manipulation error. journalctl -xe gkr-pam: couldn't update the login keyring password: no old password was entered /...

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After a Debian 12 install without LVM and with plain ‘/boot’ and LUKS encryption for ‘/’ and ‘/swap’ with passwords, ‘/swap’ now needs to be configured without passwords, for example using ‘/dev/...

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Either in cmd or PowerShell, I am lost at letting local users with standard user account to change their password by a script, similar to pressing ctrl-alt-delete -> change password...where it ...

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On my amazon linux ec2 instance, I created the group fungames and the user testuser-1. I then looked at the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file. The values added to the file by the linux subsystem doesn't ...

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I have apache 2.4.57 on a windows server. I created a new folder that only needs to display files that can be downloaded. In the httpd.conf file, I added this: Alias "/pw_files" "f:\...

Question 7

Windows Hello says "Your PIN is required to sign in. But when users enter their pin it is not accepted.

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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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We have many Linux servers. The requirement is all Linux servers log in into each other password-less with root user. The problem is if a server is added / removed / reinstalled its SSH key needs to ...

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We have an application that sends a request to an IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 server's ObjectServer REST API. In the request, there is an Authorization HTTP header set to Basic <base64-encoded ...

Question 11

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.

Question 12

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@...

Question 13

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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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 ...

Question 15

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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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 ...

Question 17

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 ...

Question 18

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 ...

Question 19

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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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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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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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 ...

Question 23

[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 ...

Question 24

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 ...

Question 25

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 ...

Question 26

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 ...

Question 27

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 ...

Question 28

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 ...

Question 29

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 ...

Question 30

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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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 ...

Question 32

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 ...

Question 33

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 ...

Question 34

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 ...

Question 35

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 ...

Question 36

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' ...

Question 37

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 ...

Question 38

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: ...

Question 39

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-...

Question 40

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 ...

Question 41

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 ...

Question 42

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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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/...

Question 44

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 ...

Question 45

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 ...

Question 46

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 ...

Question 47

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 ...

Question 48

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 ...

Question 49

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 ...

Question 50

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 ...