Is there any way to disable password masking in Linux - specifically Linux Mint 9?
Ideally I'd like to be able to choose whether to mask or unmask password fields on-the-fly, as is possible when entering passphrases in TrueCrypt.
Sometimes masking is useful (say, on a laptop in public), but often it's totally unnecessary - there's no-one looking at the screen but me, so there's no point to it.
I currently have a UNIX script with a function that uses a username and password to connect to the database, retrieve some information and then exit. At the moment, am getting the username and password from a hidden plain text file and permission set to -r--------, i.e. read only to who own the file. The owner of the file is the same owner of the script. At the moment, am not too overly concern as the script works as it is but I want to know if anyone have a suggestion if there is any better way of achieving the same thing with some "form" of security, i.e., for example, masking the username/password.
Basically, I want to be able to mask or hide the username or password in some way. I've thought about encryting the password file, which is in plain text, using simple crypt command from which I retrieve the username and password but I need to decrypt it as well which is sort of similar to how it will be as it is now once it is decrypted. Is there anyway that I can get a username and password in some gibberish format and then translating them into something usable which can be passed on the next command that requires the username/password.
Is there a way to disable password authentication completely? The command line is the following:
ssh -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PasswordAuthentication=no machine"
it STILL asks for a password. Of course I would like to do this without touching the server, if possible.
I'm the only user of my PC and as of upgrading to 10.04, I get a login screen, that requests only a password, when the PC goes idle.
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1. How does a network mask isolate a particular host on a network?
2. How does changing the mask allow for more addresses to be used?
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# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd(8) manpage for details
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[code]...
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