Questions tagged [passwords]
A password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource.
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Backup for an Android offline password manager
I am building an Android password management app, where passwords are locally kept for security reasons. The network endpoints are only for creating an account, email verifications etc. I want to ...
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How best to securely store a password for automated access (no user interaction)?
I'm facing the classic chicken/egg problem of where to store the keys to the kingdom. I'm building an application for retail distribution that will rely on receiving a cadence of regularly-issued Let'...
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How to best obfuscate a built-in key in an application?
We're building an application that needs to log into a website using built-in credentials. It's not optimal to say the least, but we're stuck with "knowing" the username and password ...
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Keeping user provided passwords to 3rd party services safe
I have a SaaS application in which users can connect their RDBMS (postgres, mysql etc) and query data from it. I'm wondering what's the best practice to keep their connection details safe. Currently, ...
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Trying to implement a "password vault"-like solution for connection strings
I started to work on a 16 years old .net framework app that didnt receive any love for a decade and I have some time to "put it up to standards". One of the things that ruffle my feathers is ...
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Sysadmin password storing
I'm quite unexperienced in the sysadmin area. Now I'm facing the responsability of managing two (remote) servers. I'm working in an informal organization. So I have passwords for the OS's users, ...
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mask username and password in service file, or better approach
At work there is a given task where a python application is currently running on a server, this application is using a enviorment file, which has username and password information. The current ask is ...
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Is it a good design to have separate Hibernate entities for general user info and user password digest?
I'm developing an app with a user management system. There is a database table named user with the following columns: | Column Name | Column Type | |-----------------|-------------| | userId ...
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