Questions regarding password-based authentication and password management
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Another account with same uid as root gets prompted to set new password for root, not itself
After upgrading the os from 5300-06 to 5300-11, this weird behaviour happened.
My system had another unix account, let's call it "abc", purposely configured its uid to 0 for working as a root with ...
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epiphany plugin for password storage
I am looking for a keepass plugin for epiphany. Something like PassIFox for Firefox: PassIFox "behaves" like a new password storage for firefox - and redirects all queries (fetch/store etc..) to ...
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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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How to invoke root privileges from a password prompt of “Software Update” window?
When I try to install software updates using the "Software Update" GUI, I am asked for the root password. Although, I can 'su' in a terminal, the password is not recognized as correct in the GUI ...
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Jboss application startup and shutdown asks for password. Howto automate with init script?
Jboss application startup and shutdown of BMC-IDM asks for password (called keystore password, some Java stuff).
Howto automate with init script?
Stop application
> stop_idm_suite.sh
Suite ...
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ZIP password finders for Linux?
I'm trying to extract ZIP files for an encrypted archive I've forgotten the password for. So far I've found the tool fcrackzip which does what I want, but its own manpage states that it has numerous ...
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Samba passwords expiring in x days - how do we fix them to not expire
We use OpenLDAP and Samba v3. Recently some Samba-defined users (no accounts on the shared linux server) started being listed in logwatch as having their passwords come up to "will expire"...I ...
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Validate Password for user account from shell script
Application is for a multiple server standardization script
Looking for a way in a shell script to check if the password for an OS account (AIX) matches a standardized plain text password.
The ...
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samba 4 force user
I have a directory with files owned by Linux user quux. I want to give access to it over CIFS using Samba 4 for two persons so they have different usernames foo and bar and passwords but access the ...
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Make gdm/mdm prompt for an empty password on liveCD
By default Fedora liveCD is configured in a way that liveuser is logged in automatically since following lines added to gdm/mdm (a fork of gdm of GNOME2) configuration file
[daemon]
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Getting a short wifi password to work on Linux Mint
Wifi password became a problem to me. My wifi password consists of only 4 letters but my Linux Mint 12 is expecting more than 7 letters - until then connect button is disabled.
Can I work around this ...
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Backupninja + Duplicity problem
I have recently installed on a Debian squeeze_64 server the Backupninja and Duplicity utilities. My goal is to backup /foo/bar/* to /desti/nation/ with full backup once a week and differentially once ...
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Rss feed notifications in gnome 3
Is there a way to configure Gnome 3 notifications to display password protected RSS feed? Or maybe it is possible to configure another RSS reader to use gnome 3 notifications? It seems to me an ...
