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Where does Samba 4 store user passwords?
Where does Samba 4 store user passwords? How can I import my password hashes from Samba 3 in Samba 4?
I am using my own LDAP server with samba 3, and the password hash is stored within the ...
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Unable to login to my server using ssh
Yesterday I was migrating to my new server, needed to use rsync, I created a RSA key, so that rsync could connect, I saw an error that says add to trusted key in location x I didn't have that location ...
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Multiple PCs network centralized system authentication
(I couldn't really choose an accurate title as I don't know exactly what the feature I'm looking for is called. Sorry about that. I hope that the following lines may clear this aspect.)
I own a dozen ...
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How to check for empty passwords?
Looking at all the ssh-login attempts by script-kiddies I assume that there are messed up systems connected to the internet that have password-less accounts set up.
But how to check a Linux/Unix ...
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Can't login as root even after resetting the password
We're running a small Centos 5 server in a virtual machine for a class assignment. For reasons unknown, starting about a week ago a number of services started failing. When we tried to investigate we ...
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iPhone type login screen?
The person that introduced me to Fedora had somehow made his login screen so that instead of typing in a password he used the "connect the dots" password that's popular on phones. Eg
On my ...
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Execute a script automatically through pbrun?
There is a Unix environment named sftwrk01, uatwrk01, intwrk01 and some more
I need to check the logs in each environment everyday by login in as below (through pbsu which is a wrapper for pbrun):
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login and su internals
I am trying to understand how user permissions work in Linux. The kernel boots and starts init as root, right? Init then runs startup scripts and runs getty (agetty), again as root. Agetty just reads ...
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Program to keep track number of login attempts
Is there any way to keep track of number of attempts made by a user to login into his system?
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How to enable remote login?
Currently I can only login to my remote linux via the "ubuntu" user account, without a password (via SSH authentication). I have another user configured on the machine, and if I try to login with its ...
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How can I make a user able to log in with ssh keys but not with a password?
I would like to create a user and have no password. As in you cant log in with a password. I want to add keys to its authorized_keys by using root. This is for my automated backup system.
