My daughter has forgotten her password on our desktop system. Note this is not the admin user (me) so I can sudo nautilus to recover her files. All info online seems to pertain to recovering administrators password is there any way of recovering a non admin password? Ubuntu 9.10 but about to be upgraded 10 10.
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cd "$DIR"
for i in *.*; do
sudo cp -iv "$i" "$DEST"
done
but this requires user password. can i add the user password in my sh file? how? I'm trying to do this because I have an application to run the sh file and the application has no way to enter the password..
Second off, I'm trying to capture a user password on login (through gdm) such that I can re-use it for a service like Kerberos or AFS. The idea is that the user has to log in only once, and then I renew the tickets and tokens until they log out again. If there's a better way to do this
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Ultimately, what I am really concerned about in this situation are keystroke loggers, so I would prefer to avoid repeated entering the user or root password when performing administrative tasks. Also, I would prefer not having to create a sudo(ing)-only user as mentioned above to prevent a comprimised password resulting in an attacker being able to log into my system.
is it considered standard practice to change the user password on a regular basis and if so how often?
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dn: uid=boo,ou=People,dc=linux,dc=gettolandia,dc=org
uid: boo
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May i ask if how or should i concern about my history records my rdesktop full cmd. I dont want to disable my history in the cmd and want to use it.
Im using rdesktop cmd since it more easy and direct to connect to a terminal RDP. I noticed the history records all my full command rdesktop which state the domain, user ,password. in txt mode..May i ask if this has any problem should i concern with..
My goal is this: Allow a user to connect to a server via SSH with any login name or password without checking to see if that account exists on that server. Their account would be captured by a universal account say, 'generic_user', and then they would be directed to one of my python scripts with the username and password they supplied for initial login. At this point my script would capture their SSHD process ID and allow/deny their existence based upon a MySQL/Subscription check.
The part I'm having trouble with is with PAM and allowing the user to login with any credentials and be successfully authenticated under the generic account. Beyond that, everything is great.
I have a problem with sshd daemon on a target linux system:The system has only one user (root) without password.The sshd_config looks like:
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Port 22
Protocol 2
[code]...
I have tried to not allow root access and have created a wheel user.
Now I can not logged in as root.
Its okay but when am logging as wheel user and trying to access root then it says:
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I have now been trying to find an answer for the following for a while and can't seem to get anything.On previous linux distros we had the option available "passwd -e" which allowed us to force the user to change their passwords upon the next login.s functionality however seems to be excluded from latest linux distros (currently using RHEL 5.4)...Does anybody know how the same effect can be achieved and perhaps any idea on why this option was removed as it was great for securing passwords
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And that's assuming that *only* the length is contained. Furthermore it seems that it would be MUCH better to simply display the number of characters entered into the pw field and allowing the gui to expand itself from an fixed size as the field is filled out so the the user still receives visual feedback for entering characters. Either a simple character count display should be entered into the field or a 10 dot to new line so that one can visually quickly count the number enter by multiplying from a 10base graphical observation.
I have a NIS server and a web server as a client. I have a regular linux user (without root privileges) "techsupport1" on NIS server.
On the client web server, I have root user, and my clients. Now what I want to achieve is, allow my user "techsupport1" to access the web server, but instead of logging in using root user, I'd like the client to use username "techsupport1", but in the same time, give that user root privileges on the web server (client). The reason, is that I have more than one user who need to manage the web server (client), so I want to be able to clearly see in the bash_history, who has been running what commands. right now, when I login as a techsupport user to the web server (client) from my NIS server
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I don't have root privileges, also my gid is matching to gid of a customer who has the same 517 on the web server. How can I configure, so when a tech support agent 1, logs in to web server, NIS grants root privileges, but keeps the techsupport username?
I have got a RHEL 5.6 server configured to authenticate via a Windows 2008 domain controller via LDAPS.Everything is working fine, except from the following: When I create a new user in Active directory and check the option "user must change password at next logon", the new user cannot logon and gets an "access denied" message. In /var/log/secure, I find the following:
Mar 1 14:43:21 cpssvn10 sshd[5363]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.168.3.12 user=testuser2
Mar 1 14:43:21 cpssvn10 sshd[5363]: pam_ldap: error trying to bind as user "CN=CPSS Testuser 2,OU=IBM,DC=cpss,DC=smarterplatform,DC=com" (Invalid credentials)
Mar 1 14:43:23 cpssvn10 sshd[5363]: Failed password for testuser2 from 192.168.3.12 port 4583 ssh2
As soon as I uncheck the "user must change ..." option, the user can log on without problems. Also password change via the passwd command works.
I am running the latest xubuntu and I lost my password or so I think I might be typing it wrong, is there way to recover it (easy please).
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