Questions tagged [passwords]
String of characters that allows access to a computer, interface, system or application.
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How can I give my wife emergency access to logins, passwords, etc.?
I'm the digital guru in my household. My wife is good with email and forum websites, but she trusts me with all our important digital stuff — online banking and other things that require ...
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What can I do if I forgot my Windows password?
I got a brand new Windows 7 machine, installed the operating system, created one account and forgot its password. What can I do?
There is no external CD, the operating system is loaded from somewhere ...
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How do I securely store and manage 180 passwords?
I have about 180 passwords for different websites and web services. They are all stored in one single password protected Excel document. As the list gets longer I am more and more concerned about its ...
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Can't enter BIOS password containing "!"
Yesterday, I added a password containing a ! to my BIOS. Unfortunately, the password prompt that asks for the password when you boot doesn't let you write a ! (i.e. the little * isn't added and it ...
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Delete entered password in hidden password prompt (Linux) with shortcut
Is there a way to delete all characters that I entered in a hidden password prompt in Linux? For example, when I SSH to a server, it asks for my password where the entered keys are not shown:
$ ssh ...
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Can I force Google Chrome to remember passwords?
Is there a way to force Google Chrome to remember passwords for sites that have autocomplete turned off?
Clarification:
I am a programmer, but ideally, I'd like a method that I could help regular ...
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What's an efficient way to change my 200+ account passwords?
I have a lot of online accounts, web services, and so on -- personal as well as business -- so obviously(?) I use a password manager to handle them all. Specifically I use Lastpass but my question ...
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Hacker put password on PC, need help to get into PC
My Uncle got a phone call from hackers pretending to be TalkTalk and as he is elderly and was tired, they talked him into doing things on his laptop. When they started to talk about banking etc he ...
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How do I reset the Windows XP Administrator password?
I have forgotten the Administrator password of my Windows XP installation and locked out. Is there a way to reset it? I do have physical access to the PC.
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Escaping a password using mysqldump console
I am running a mysqldump via a bash script and have encountered a problem with a password that contains special characters.
mysqldump -hlocalhost -uUSERNAME -pPA$$W0RD DATABASE |
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How do I delete ALL Chrome/Google Account stored website passwords at once?
I have hundreds of them, it takes .6 seconds to delete one in the browser and 3.7 seconds to delete one in the Google Account management page.
There has to be a way to remove all of them at once... ...
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Manually add username/password to Saved Password list?
I logged into Mozilla's Bugzilla. I noticed Firefox did not save my password.
How do I manually add my username and password to Firefox's Saved Password list?
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How can I manually add a password to Chrome password manager?
How do I manually add a password to Chrome? For some reason, it doesn't ask me if I want to save my password for a website after I log in. I think I answered No the first time that it asked me, and ...
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How can I selectively disable paste blockers
As more and more websites add paste blocking code of one type or another to e-mail and password fields and more people use password managers, the two are increasingly coming into conflict.
While ...
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How secure are password-protected zip files?
In modern zip utilities like 7zip, you can specify a password when creating a .ZIP file. But, how secure is this? What encryption algorithm(s) are used to secure password-protected zip files?
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How to get rid of lag/delay when unlocking Windows 10
With Windows 7 (and XP) I could walk up to a locked PC (without Ctrl-Alt-Del requirement) and start typing my password, even with the screen off, and the keypresses would all be sent to the password ...
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KeePass Password Safe 2.12: Unhiding Passwords?
KeePass 2.12 - Turning off hidden password - When I open an entry, the password is disguised by asterisks. How do I turn off this feature so that I can recall previously inputted passwords?
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add password to existing zip file with 7zip
Is it possible to add a password to an existing zipfile with 7zip without going to all the trouble of unpacking it and re-packing it again?
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7-Zip doesn't ask me for a password for a ZIP file I encrypted while double-clicking it
I just tried to encrypt a folder with 7-Zip by a command line, choosing a password, but when double-clicking on the ZIP file, it shows me the files list without asking any password.
Is there a way to ...
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How do I decrypt a password-protected PDF on OSX?
I have a PDF that requires a password to view. I know what the password is. I frequently open this PDF to print it, and find entering the password each time incredibly annoying. How can I remove the ...
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SSH makes all typed passwords visible when command is provided as an argument to the SSH command
If I run this:
ssh user@server 'mysql -u user -p'
When it asks me for the MySQL password, and I start typing, the password is visible on screen. How can I prevent this? If I log in through ssh and ...
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How to set password on already existing winrar archive and encrypt it also?
Not when creating new archive, but on existing archive. I would also like to know how to do that in other archiver.
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how can I check my rsa passphrase?
I think I've forgotten my RSA passphrase again.
Is there a way to have my local command line prompt me for it so I can check if I at least what I remember it as is correct, so I don't needlessly ...
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How can I find out the password complexity policy?
A user tries to change his/her password in a Windows domain and it's not accepted:
The password supplied does not meet the minimum complexity
requirements
How can an end-user find out what the ...
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How can clients easily and securely send me passwords? [closed]
I often need to get passwords from clients for FTP, SSH, MySQL, Authorize.net, etc.
What's an easy way for them to send me passwords securely? Maybe even without them needing a login/password?
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I'm using Chrome and Chrome Sync; does Google have access to my passwords?
I've been using Chrome (and Chrome Sync) for many years now. Does that mean Google, the owner of Chrome, knows all my passwords?
I ask because I realized that Google owns Chrome, and also, it is a ...
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Login with Linux FTP username and password
What's the command for logging in with FTP all with one line?
ftp username:[email protected]
says:
Password required for username:password
Daniel Course
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If a password is compromised, is a "similar" password also compromised?
Suppose a user uses a secure password at site A and a different but similar secure password at site B. Maybe something like mySecure12#PasswordA on site A and mySecure12#PasswordB on site B (feel ...
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Can Google Employees See My Passwords Saved in Google Chrome?
I understand that we are really tempted to save our passwords in Google Chrome. The likely benefit is two fold,
You don't need to (memorize and) input those long and cryptic passwords.
These are ...
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Palindrome passwords disallowed—why?
I tried to change a Linux password to "sitonapotatopanotis" and got this error: BAD PASSWORD: is a palindrome
Why does this rule exist?
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Password Cracking Windows Accounts
At work we have laptops with encrypted harddrives. Most developers here (on occasion I have been guilty of it too) leave their laptops in hibernate mode when they take them home at night. Obviously, ...
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How does Google Chrome store passwords?
Are they encrypted in disk? How? Are they safe, for example, in the event of someone booting from a Live CD and mounting the hard disk?
How is the encryption key generated? Is it different in ...
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Removing the password from a PDF file
I have a couple of ebooks as PDFs with passwords, however my ebook reader (sony prs600) doesn't seem to support PDFs with passwords. What is the easiest of removing the password from a PDF (I know ...
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what is the max length of password on unix/linux system?
what is the max permissible length of password on unix/linux system?
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How do I configure SSH on OS X?
I'm trying to SSH from one Mac running OS X 10.6 to another. Seems to work fine via a password, but I can't get it to use a RSA key instead. Where is the ssh configuration file on OS X and what is the ...
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Turn off Automatic login with Windows 7
I setup my Windows 7 to automatically log into my account at home. I have a password set so that I can access it remotely. It seems like this was a feature in control panel somewhere, but now I can'...
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Why do I need to enter a password for the Default Keyring to unlock?
When I log into Ubuntu, I am prompted every time to:
Enter Password for Default Keyring to Unlock
I want to avoid this step since I am the only person using this machine and I see no reason to have ...
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How do I remove the "eye symbol" from password fields in Windows 8?
While I was entering my password in Gmail and other mail accounts, I could see a symbol of an "eye" in the text box.
This is really dangerous because once you click on the eye, your password is ...
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Is it safe to store (encrypted) passwords on GitHub?
I am using pass to handle all my passwords. They are encrypted using GPG with a 4096 bits key, using the SHA256 algorithm. I am using a different password for every login in my password store.
One of ...
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Re-enable Chrome browser remember password
For some websites, I have set the option never on this site when the browser recommends me to remember the password.
Now I want the popup comes back for this web, how can I do it?
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Are saved Remote Desktop credentials secure on the local machine?
Are saved Remote Desktop credentials secure (loosely speaking) on the local machine? They aren't stored as clear text anywhere at least, are they?
Edit: I understand the inherent risks of saving ...
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Best way to share certain passwords stored in Keepass?
What's the best way to share certain passwords that are stored in a Keepass database?
For example, I want to share certain Banking Passwords with a family member, but I don't want to share my work ...
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Mac OS X asks for Admin Username and Password twice before allowing access to Cisco AnyConnect VPN
OS X asks me -- twice -- to enter my admin username and password before it will let me connect to Cisco AnyConnect VPN. This is annoying and unnecessary.
Text of the prompt:
OS X wants to make ...
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How to force Chrome to remember a password? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I force Google Chrome to remember passwords?
Chrome is not trying to remember a password on web.ebuddy.com
Is there a way to force Chrome to remember a password for this ...
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mysql (mariadb) ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
I'm working on Xubuntu 15.04. I already installed the MariaDB-Server on various systems and was always asked for a root password during installation. This time, however, I don't remember being asked ...
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How to disable WSL password?
I feel there is no need for a password on WSL because it is already protected from my Windows account. Nobody could use my WSL without first knowing my Windows password.
How can I disable the WSL ...
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Make Windows forget a network connection password?
Is there a way to prevent Windows from remembering the network password after it connects? So that upon disconnecting Windows won't reconnect without re-entering password.
What if I want it to always ...
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Lost my Windows 7 admin password, need to change or reset it [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What can I do if I forgot my Windows password?
I forgot the Windows 7 password on my new computer and I can't log into it at all. I was the administrator for the computer with ...
Susan
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Hide users from Mac OS X Snow Leopard logon screen
Somehow, I managed to set a passwd for my _postgres user on my OS instead of setting it on the postgres role I have as my superuser / root. Anyways since this, I've been struggling with that user ...
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Password manager for multiple computers? [closed]
Is there a password manager that I can use on multiple computers, to remember all the passwords I use on the sites I visit?
James Magruder