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 RepliesI am running an Ubuntu 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit machine and I have set up an SSH between them and for whatever reason the passwords won't work; I receive the following error when trying to log on from either computer..I own both of the computers so I have full reign over them, so I'm assuming it should be an easy fix but I'm not sure about what to do.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am unable to get group passwords to work at all in 10.4. I set the password for the group and try to `newgrp` in to it, the prompt asks for the password, but always gives me permission denied (even though its set to allow this..": x :"). Is this just not fully supported?
Next, after using `sudo gpasswd -A usr grp`, the user becomes an admin of the group, he can add/remove users only for that grp, but is not a "member". How would I find out who are admins of groups? I have tried `groups`, looking in /etc/group and theres nothing, the user does't even look like hes associated with the group at all.
I have recently installed openldap on a server to use for authentication but I'm unable to get SHA/SSHA password hashes to work. I'm able to authenticate against it when the user have a CRYPT password. We had an old badly maintained openldap server that SHA worked on so I ran slapcat on that one and built that database on the new openldap server and was able to authenticate with SHA hashed passwords. So I'm quite confident that my slapd.conf works.
I suppose it's something in the ldif file I use to setup the database that is missing but I can't figure out what. It's quite large and I don't really know what parts of it would be relevant.
I 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 RelatedMy Mythweb is asking for authentication but none username/password will work. It just prompts for authentication over and over again. I've found few configurations regarding authentication:
in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf I have following lines:
<Directory "/var/www/mythweb">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AuthType Basic
AuthName "MythTV"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/httpd-passwords
require user user1 user2
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none of the username/paswd pairs in Authuserfile are working? Can there be yet another file / configuraton somewhere? How do I know which one apache is using right now?
i just got the new pardus 2011 i love it.i was testing the live dvd of it of a usb drive and i tried to get my wireless to work, but i couldn't. i mean,it detected the network, i actully put my password in, and it seemed that it was going to connect , but it stopped while acquiring ip address. the router is fine,also the wireless card,i'm writing this from windows 7,which works wireless, i can also use wireless from ubuntu, GNOME version, and from linuxmint (GNOME)
i saw on the release notes that they changed to the Gnome's NetowrkManager and i thought it was going to work.i kinda like KDE and am going to give you any infos you consider useful. i'll be booting and rebooting through pardus to give you logs.
I 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 Relatedis there some wiki page on GNOME or Fedora that list which graphics cards work without problems on Fedora 15 with GNOME Shell? I have tried 3 older cards and they all failed, so I would like to share this info with others so people know which cards to avoid if they want to use full features of GNOME 3 via GNOME Shell.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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
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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 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 Replies View RelatedHow Do I reset passwords in Ubuntu 10.10?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow 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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am just wondering what encryption method the shadow file uses, so that I may be able to manually change it. I ask this because I am trying to make a web page that will allow people to change their linux password via a browser.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to have more than one password simultaneously attached to a login account in Linux?I'd like to be able to add a temporarily-authorized user to an account on my web server, but don't want to have to change the login afterwards.Even cooler would be if this could be done with a timer of some kind so the temporary password would auto-die after, say, 24 hours.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for a tool, command line or GUI, for Linux that generates memorable passwords An equivalent of what I am looking for would be passwords that the Mac Os X keychain can generate, something like apples12$/fourteen. Something strong, but easily memorized by a user.
View 2 Replies View Relatedhow do i view configuration files for passwords and groups?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have couple of users in one machine. I can access the /etc/passwd,/etc/shadow and /etc/group files in this box. I have another box. I want to create some user accounts in the second box by just looking in the passwd, shadow and group files in the first box. I would just copy over the corresponding lines into the corresponding for whichever accounts I want to create as new and also change the lines for which I want to update the account information. Is this possible and will also the passwords work fine? Please also let me know there is any good tool for automatically doing this kind of stuff. Both the boxes that I have are Ubuntu machines though one is running Ubuntu 8.04 and the other is 10.04.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am using an internal toy svn server, and svn client seems to be configured to store passwords in gnome-keyring by default. How can I disable it or at least switch to kwallet?I am using Debian Testing.
View 2 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 RelatedRunning SunGard Banner software on RHEL 4.2 x86-32 bit Linux server Oracle Application 10.1.2.3 samba enabled. Users run processes/reports that are logged in a daily log file. In our daily job submission log files the user password shows up as clear text.The password shows up as $PSWD (sample from the logfile):
$JOB
$BANUID
$PSWD
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