General :: Fedora EC2 Passwords Reset
Mar 2, 2011I mount my Fedora AMI on my EC2 account, when I reboot the system, the passwords for ec2-user and root are changed.On the web I found that is a "feature" .
View 1 RepliesI mount my Fedora AMI on my EC2 account, when I reboot the system, the passwords for ec2-user and root are changed.On the web I found that is a "feature" .
View 1 RepliesHow Do I reset passwords in Ubuntu 10.10?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I find out the existing root passwd or set up a new one? Edit mode was not an option at the GRUB menu.
View 14 Replies View RelatedDo these guides work with resetting the current fedora root passwords?
http://www.labtestproject.com/linuse..._password.html
http://www.labtestproject.com/using_...d_on_fedora_10
Evolution keeps asking me asking for the passwords for the mail servers I use for the key ring. And sometimes crashes if I try to cancel. I mean it asked yesterday and then again today.Is there anyway to reset the key ring passwords and start from scratch.Apparently to many things use key ring so it can't be removed.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm unable to reset using either the reset option in gnome shell or the command using a terminal. When I select it the shell exits and displays the graphic "exploding" and then it just sits there. Shutdown works fine; just no reset. Any ideas? I've installed from the DVD. I booted the live CD and it resets just fine so I know it's no my hardware
View 1 Replies View RelatedI wonder if it is possible to have two passwords for one user account in 9.10. I have a long login password (5 words about 45 characters with spaces caps). I would like to set a shorter password for Authentication, sudo, etc. While retaining the original for logging in.In short:Have long password to login to computer.Have short password for everything after login.
View 6 Replies View RelatedAfter login I get the blue desktop with the swirly art thing but I don't have a starting point to be able to do anything and think screen resolution may be the issue. How do I resolve that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have winbind Active Directory authentication set up on my laptop. AD authentication works like a charm, passwords cache, etc. I can use sudo with no problem. However, I cannot use the root account -no matter what I set the root password to, the system will not take it. I also have a couple of normal system users (not winbind), and no matter what I set their passwords to, I cannot login.
View 4 Replies View RelatedRunning FC11 64 bit and Firefox 3.5.5. Under Edit->Preferences->Security, I have checked the box "Remember passwords for sites". But Firefox doesn't remember the passwords. It does remember the usernames. Is there something else that I must do to get it remember passwords?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm having some problems of security in my Fedora 12... excess of security. It keeps me asking mi password everytime I want to perform an operation, and in some cases I'm pretty sure that this hampers me to work with some files.
Everytime I boot it, it asks about the password for the wireless network, and when I fill that out, another window pops up saying "Enter password for default keyring to unlock" (I press the "deny button" always for this one as it doesn't accept my user password.
I'm a newbie in linux and in programming, so I spend the days facing problem after problem and it's starting to drive me crazy. I'm not the root of the computer, but just a superuser (I hope that's not the problem)
Isn't it possible just to put my password when I start and then work without writing it anytime?
I am not a Linux user but and learning about it in a class and thought I would check it out. My teacher said that two linux users cannot have the same passwords but never explained why?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was wounder if there is a way to add two different passwords for one user.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI can not manage to get any passwords on my network with Ettercap.I have followed several tutorials but I still seem to have no luck in getting them.I have BT5/KDE/32bit installed and using an alfa network adapter (RTL8187).First I configured etter.conf script to look as below:
ec_uid = 0 # root is the default
ec_gid = 0 # root is the default
# the command used by the remote_browser plugin
[code]...
I have Fedora 10 installed. I want my users to be able to use any password they want. So I edited /etc/pam.d/system-auth, the password section.
Was:
Code:
password requisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3
password sufficient pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
password required pam_deny.so
Become:
[Code].....
Many people would like not to have to open a terminal or have more granular control over permitions that can be achieved using PAM permissions(read the man pages for PAM for more information) and the consolehelper.
The sources for this comes from Red Hat manuals
Say we want to have gedit ask for a root pasword so we do the fallowing.
- Step 1 - Open a terminal. (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal)
- Step 2 - Become root:
Code:
su -
- Step 3 - Create a symlink in /usr/sbin/
Code:
cd /usr/bin
ln -s consolehelper gedit-root
- Step 4 - Create a PAM configuration file in /etc/pam.d/foo:
[Code].....
Name it gedit-root.desktop and save it to /usr/share/applications/ and you are done. Now when you need to edit your config files you can just click on the gedit-root and it will open gedit as root.
ps: I took this configurations from the original gedit.desktop file and edited a little.
You can now make programs ask for permissions like nautilus when you want to navigate through root owned folders, you can make the nvidia settings start as root and you can now using the PAM file describe what can be done or not.
So I've set up a Samba server through the gui. When I've labeled my shares as accessible to everyone, I can get to it no problem. However, when I tie it down to a specific samba user, I can't.
By all indications, it appears that it isn't saving the password because every time I go to edit users, it has the exact same string in the password field.
I use Ubuntu on my netbook, which I uses for browsing and email. It's way faster than the Windows which came on the machine. That's a nice feature, as is the price.
I like it except for the constant, perpetual, ever-present, super-annoying need to be entering passwords and "becoming root user" and so on. I am the only one using this appliance. I don't even care if someone steals it, really. There must be some way (I hope) of disabling this idea that I am a CIA agent with TopSecret materials.
I just want a simple, easy to use appliance. If not Ubuntu, is there any distro that is aimed at normal people?
I downloaded and installed hundreds of KDE and GNOME programs yesterday evening. A password was called for and rejected because it was too short. A new password was provided but it was not written down or saved on anything. I am now locked out of linux for want of a working passwd.There is a way to recover a lost password. Would someone please tell me what it is? I do not want to have to re-install everything again.
View 14 Replies View RelatedWe use a Linux server with AFS on it. I changed the linux root password using passwd. The new password will let me log in as root but when I try to change the AFS admin password it asks for the root password. When I put in the password that it let me log in as root. It tells me authentication failed. And when I run the password command with -admin admin, it asks for the admin password. I put in the admin password that worked before I changed the root and it says authorization failed.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a 389-ds with a large user base. All passwords are stored plaintext. I would like to convert all these stored passwords to a hash, say SHA-1.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhile I've been using Linux for a little while now, I have only recently been getting into setting up and using a server at home (in part because until recently I only had ONE computer at home). I have heard of LDAP and OpenLDAP, but I am not sure if this is the best tool to do the following. Centralize logins and passwords for all of the computers at home, so I only have to change/manage one place. Since I keep installing Linux Distros it would be nice if I didn't have to add each person, individually each time.
Provide single sign-on authentication for the user so when they go to the Samba server they don't have to do another login, but they are limited in what they can see. Basically I don't want the kids being able to see *MY* files
- Works with Linux (various) and Windows (Windows 7 more than XP)
- Works with desktop and laptop
- Be able to, possibly, pass this authentication to the web server so likewise do not need to log into the web server after logging into the computer.
- (optional) be able to set up a script to run automatically to either map network drives or mount samba directories based on the user being logged in (smb://user/<username>) and/or backup the system.
I say optional because if it can that is great, but if it cannot then it isn't a show-stopper. Like I said, I am very new to servers and networking and do not know where to start regarding this. Right now I have a basic (too open) file server and a web server just beginning to be developed (working on Drupal). Not only do I need to figure out what/where to research about the server settings but also setting up the client-side of things.
I am new to Linux. I have a new ntfs usb external drive. I have attached to the Linux server but can't locate it. I would like to
1. mount it.
2. format to Linux file system
3. and then create share folders with passwords using samba.
How to I get linux to stop prompting me for a password and remember it? For instance, when using the root user, I always get prompted, but I would rather only be prompted once per user session.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI know one way is to enforce rules on the passwords, use at least one uppercase, lowercase, number, special character, and ensure that the password length is at least 8 characters, etc...
Is there an additional way to prevent weak passwords? I heard of "John the ripper". Has anyone successful applied that?
Where is the login password stored in Ubuntu? What is that file? Can I open that file?
View 6 Replies View Relatedall the sudden i have to start typing in the nm keyring password and subsequently all my website logins
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to have multiple passwords on the same account, where one password allows only normal login and another only when accessing the machine remotely (for example, via ssh)?
View 6 Replies View RelatedPassword strength in Linux can be ensured by setting parameters in /etc/pam.d/common-password file. But these policies apply only for non-root users, when they set password for themselves.s there any way to ensure strength of passwords assigned by root?Example: Normally root can assign passwords like "hello" "password" etc. Is there a way to ensure that passwords assigned by root must contain a special character and a digit as mandatory?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm configuring a CentOS 5.4 workstation. I have been able to apply most of the security that is required. I have met all but one logging requirement. How do you get the count of old passwords associated with users? I don't need to see their passwords just how many times they have changed them. I have set remember to 24 in the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file. I don't know where the file is that contains this information.
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