Questions tagged [password]
Questions regarding password-based authentication and password management
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understanding sha512 hash in /etc/shadow
for RHEL-8.10 with /etc/login.defs having ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512 for my local ron account I set {as root} the password for it to also be just ron. As such in /etc/shadow I have this: ron:$6$...
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How do I enable root account = set root password in Synology DSM 7.2?
How do I enable root account = set root password in Synology DSM 7.2? (On Synology DS923+, but I believe it is not at all hardware-bound.) Being rooted with sudo -i, I tried passwd, but I got: -ash: ...
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How to debug chpasswd "Authentication token manipulation error"
I'm trying to programmatically change a user's password using chpasswd, but I'm getting the following error: /sbin/chpasswd <<< "0s22xmgW:<new_password>" chpasswd: (user ...
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SSH: How to verify the passphrase of a key but without doing an attempt of ssh connection?
About SSH I know the following command works: ssh -i id_rsa <username>@<ip> Of course: The remote server must be running The passphrase of the id_rsa key is requested and if it is valid ...
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SHA_CRYPT_MIN_ROUNDS value in /etc/login.defs
at https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/login.defs.5.html With a lot of rounds, it is more difficult to brute force thepassword. But note also that more CPU resources will be needed to ...
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Unable to set password of another user, even as root
I'm having an unusual problem. I created the user, and, I thought, set it's password. For additional context, this is in a production environment, and we are using RHEL 8.10 [root@computer ~] useradd ...
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ckpasswd from inn2 does not behave the same as described in its man page
From reading man ckpasswd I gather that it should accept ClientAuthname: and ClientPassword: through its stdin and exit with an error code and error output, if the password is wrong. I used the Perl ...
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Mount not working on Rocky linux 9 - unknown file system
I try to mount a share with user and password: mount -t user=xxxx,password=yyyy //192.168.0.180/mount_dir/ /home/mount_to/ - this share has xxxx user and yyyy password, and it works fine under windows,...
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