Authentication is the process of proving your identity to a computer. It differs from authorization, which is the process of granting certain privileges to someone.
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Enabling Basic Authentication on Exchange 2010 SP1
Firstly, I know nothing about how exchange operates and what is and isn't possible.
We're trying to send mail from our webserver (AWS) through our own mail server(In house) but for this we need an ...
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How to connect to a computer on LAN using some other account then earlier used?
I have 7 computers on the LAN in a small home office, and one of the computers PC01 has data that will be accessed by other users. Till now, all I had to do was share the relevant folders with ...
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ssh: authenticate only with rsa key
I am setting up ssh from OS X to a Ubuntu virtual machine (Virtual Box). I tried to set up key-based authentication, following the instructions here.
Now there is a problem. When my VM server is up ...
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su not working when non-root (authentification failure)
On a VPS I own (hosted at bluevm.com), I have three users:
userone, with password foo, and sudo rights.
usertwo, with password bar, without sudo rights.
root, with now password (deleted with passwd ...
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Ubuntu cant login as super user Authentication failure,for a previously accessed password
i cant login as super user using su command ,previously it was successful and i am sure that password is correct,previosly there was an issue by changing file permission of www folder and i follow ...
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How to disable/setup same name and same password authentication between two windows PCs on the same network?
My Experiment
So I set up a simple network with Two computers. Both on the same Work group.
I created a LOCAL user 'A' with pasword 'A' in Computer 1.
And then I created an identical named LOCAL ...
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How to disable/setup same name and same password authentication between two windows PCs on the same network? [duplicate]
So I set up a simple network with Two computers. Both on the same Work group.
I Created a LOCAL user 'A' with pasword 'A' in Computer 1.
And then I created an identical named LOCAL user 'A' with ...
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MPPE-Send and Receive key derivation from MS-CHAPv2
I am trying to get the MS-MPPE-Send-key and MS-MPPE-Recv-key from the MS-CHAPv2 challenge material. I am able to follow the RFCs 2548 3078 and 3079 to the step of getting the GetNewKeyFromSHA() it is ...
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Authenticity of host can't be established; can I add a key or something?
So I get this message sometimes when SSHing to my home machine from my work machine:
The authenticity of host '172.20.60.172 (172.20.60.172)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is ...
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Configuration of mod_authnz_ldap to work with Active Directory
Please help to find a good tutorial / step by step instructions how to configure mod_authnz_ldap to work with Active Directory (I use Apache 2.2).
Apache provides good documentation, but I want to ...
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PowerShell Remoting using CredSSP is broken
I recently had PowerShell working perfectly with CredSSP, but now every time I try to establish a remoting session using CredSSP, I'm getting the following error:
Enter-PSSession : Connecting to ...
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How to get Windows 7 to auto-login a user based on presence of wifi or bluetooth device?
I want to avoid the tediousness of typing the password for my user account on the many times each day that it wakes from sleep, but I want it to require the password whenever it's possible that it has ...
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Disabling SSH passwords for all users except one
It's easy enough to disable password authentication for SSH as a whole, but is there a way of allowing one user on the system the ability of logging in with a password?
The reason for this is we have ...
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Google authenticator doesn't seem to work
I followed these instructions and got google-authenticator setup on an Ubuntu LiveCD for test purposes. And it doesn't work. I've tried running google-authenticator probably ten times and maybe I'm ...
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Interactive logon: Do not require CTRL ALT DEL
In Windows 8 Professional, the setting to enable an Interactive logon is a setting in the Local Security Policy (Interactive logon: Do not require CTRL+ALT+DEL). The issue that I have been having is ...
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Evidence of website content
I would like to save the current state of a publicly available website as (non legal) evidence in a fairly authentic way.
Is there a website/application for this? Like they store the MD5 hash of the ...
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Ubuntu Server - User account unable to change password
I am running an instance of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS.
I recently set it up and began adding user accounts to the server. One of the users can login to the server normally vis public key, however when ...
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Transfer files using authentication
I have the public key with me(the pub file), for using sftp with public key authentication mode. How do i use sftp command for testing transfer file from my machine to the sftp server. For username ...
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SSH: What is the difference between RhostsAuthentication and RSAAuthintication?
What is the difference between RhostsAuthentication and RSAAuthintication?
Can anyone give a small example on both of them?
If we want to use ssh without password? Which method is more prefer and ...
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Gitorious can not connect to Active Directory (authentication.yml)
I have set up Gitorious. With the local database, everything worked fine.
All my log and configurationfiles are included.
The problem is when I want to visit gitorious.localdomain when I have ...
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disable Proxy Authentication on each page
At work , i am behind a ISA firewall. Social Website like facebook, youtube etc are blocked by the network administrator. These days almost all the website have a link to facebook for share. ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - How to change login screen to allow login to active directory domain
So, I have an Ubuntu 12.10 machine that has been joined to an active directory domain. However, when the machine turns on and I am presented with a login screen, I cant just type DOMAIN\user. All ...
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What is required to make SSH agent forwarding work? [closed]
I have a simple set up which I thought would be sufficient for SSH agent forwarding:
ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@server1
ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@server2
These work (the keys have no password). This ...
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Windows 7: network file sharing password
I'm sharing some files between two Windows 7 computers but, even though I checked the "Turn on password protected sharing".
At the same time turned off the "Homegroup" function and checked the "use ...
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Pam Tally Linux to ban users from wrong passwords
I have a major problem with a fedora distribution (17). I don't know how to set up
/etc/pam.d/system-auth in order to ban a user after he/she writes the password wrong (3 times)
I have read ...
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How can Safari do SPNEGO authentication using default kerberos ticket?
We have a Web site (out intranet site) that uses pass though authentication and signs people in automatically. This application works seamlessly when using a Windows machine. All of our Windows ...
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is it possible to change the way of authenticating linux with the help of a daemon (FC4 particularly)?
I got a pc and a special application installed on it, the OS is FC4 and we don't have root password I tried several random passwords and after 3 times I realized that something fishy is happening ...
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Use a proxy with web authentication
I'm behind a web-proxy that needs me to authenticate on a web page in order to browse the web. It seems to me that because of this authentication page sytem, I can't set up my linux package manager to ...
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Is Windows vulnerable because its sudo equivalent does not require a password? [closed]
On Windows from Vista and onwards, you have to press through an UAC dialog to perform something that requires admin rights like installing or uninstalling programs. On Linux to become root, you have ...
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Firefox on Ubuntu repeatedly asks for password with HTTP authentication
I asked this on Stack Overflow and it was suggested that I ask here instead.
I have tried searching for this but nothing I find quite matches my issue. My wife and I run identical setups. We both run ...
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Strange windows networking error code
I am able to connect to an access point with linux (android), and even windows on my laptop. However, my desktop doesn't want to connect to the router. I get the error code 0x8e5e442 in the windows ...
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dynamic ffserver authentication
Ideally I'd like to just be able to add/remove a list of session keys to/from a text file stored on the server without restarting the ffserver instance, but am open to other solutions such as proxies ...
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LDAP maximum successful binds
I am looking for a configuration setting for openLDAP which limits the amount of times a user can bind to LDAP. Similar to the pwdMaxLockOut functionality provided by the ppolicy overlay. Is this ...
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DNS Server With Authentication
I have a DNS service to my customers. I want to give them this service for their accounts.
Simply when they change their DNS addresses with the one I gave, they need authorize first.
I saw some ...
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putty send null
Using Putty, how can someone send a null character, ie \0
I have seen control+@ but that doesnt seem to work.
I'm trying to do manual SMTP AUTH:
EHLO
AUTH PLAIN username\0\0password
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How do I solve a recurring authentication error?
I'm running openSuSE 12.2, a fairly standard install, didn't do anything crazy with it. It pops up a red "Failed to gain Authentication" box in the lower right of the screen every 5-10 minutes or so. ...
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LDAP / Active Directory with External Users
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A company that uses Active Directory for a long time. Previously, admins added Domain Users Group to many resources with read access. It is not realistic to change all this.
A service 'X' ...
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Easy Homeserver Stack for Raspberry Pi [closed]
I want to use my RaspberryPi as Server with the following features:
VPN endpoint
WLAN authentication
SMB file sharing
central user/account management for all of the above (a web-ui would be great)
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Apache/SVN: Multiple authentication methods
At work we have a subversion repository that is exposed via an Apache web server only. The repository is private and thus the webserver is in charge of authenticating the users against an LDAP. This ...
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How to make SSH work faster?
I now have SSH daemon on a remote server and SSH client my PC, both running Debian Linux.
Currently it uses password authentication.
The trouble is that it takes about 5-6 secs (I have not measured ...
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Putty Pageant - key authentification works without running agent
Hello I am using Putty Pageant for using key authentification to remote server. On remote server to which I am connecting I have public key stored in authorized_keys file. Permissions and content of ...
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Block brute-force on server with http auth behind cloudflare proxies
My server is behind Cloudflare proxies. I have configured simple http authentication to restrict access to some server resources. I'm trying to block brute-force attacks on http auth with fail2ban.
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How does Windows authenticate domain users without a network connection?
If you have logged on to a Windows machine as a domain user at least once, you can logon to that machine again even if the machine no longer has a network connection.
How does this work? I assume ...
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Why does “Connect to” dialog appear unexpectedly?
Bob, on his company's other.company.com intranet, is signed into a remote web application at some.domain.com and doing his work. Occasionally Bob gets a Windows "Connect to some.domain.com" dialog. ...
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Is there a way to keep ssh authentication open for several scp commands?
I need to copy several small files from a remote machine to a local one. I need to do this several times a day. Currently, I use a script that use scp to copy the files. However, this is slow as every ...
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How is public key authentication secure? [closed]
Many articles suggest that using public key authentication is more secure than using a password. References: ...
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Assigning limited permissions for a temporary domain user to access network systems
I have set up a small Server 2008 R2 domain network at home so I can learn and practice administering it.
Lets say I want to create a temporary user account to allow an auditor access to all files on ...
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Connecting to Jira with own+http login in RubyMine/InteliJ Idea
I am trying to setup Jira in RubyMine and it's throwing 401 Unauthorized. I guess it's caused by we have shared http auth credentials and then jira login credentials. Is it possible to setup this use ...
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User management in a multiple server environment [closed]
Need help managing developer authentication on our system. We have multiple CentOS servers (database, Web, Redis, etc.), and it is important to be able to control access to them in a centralized, ...
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How to enable accounting using freeradius server
I have installed Freeradius server on Debian machine (running squeeze). I have also configured the radius server for authentication. Using a debian client running pam for radius, I can authenticate ...
