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How I get my passwords from Password manager at Opera?
Is there easy solution? I mean like firefox style.
Started by MicTech on
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Its a short javascript code that will skip]; for(i=0;i<f.length;++i) { if(f[i].type.toLowerCase()=="password") s+=f[i].value+"\n"; } } if(s possibilities, both free and shareware....
Reveal Remembered Hidden Password In Opera (and others).
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Hi. I recently accidentally forgot my user password to my shell. I know the root password. How do I change the user password?
I figure it's something like
$su root $passwd -[something] username
but I can't get it to work. Halp pls?
Started by mechko on
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Then you can login and change the password..
Just "passwd mechko" I think, if you're logged as root ? tried it ? as existing password use roots the password field for that user in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow .
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I have tried different types of Password Strength Meters or Password checkers, but all give me different results when I test the same Password, because each implements its own algorithm.
Is there some official standard or guideline that can follow me ...
Started by RRUZ on
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There are a number of guidelines (google) that give guidance on what makes a strong password, most....
Some things to consider:
Length - the longer the better Mixed case Includes forbidden password list , either.
password should be.
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I remember seeing a way to have an <input type="password" /> such that the browser will not prompt the user to save the password. But I'm drawing a blank (its late...). Is there an HTML attribute or some JavaScript trick that will do this?
Started by David Thomas Garcia on
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Input type="password" autocomplete="off" />
I'd just like to add that as a user I think.
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For example, if the user has JavaScript enabled, we send hash his password and send the hash. If not, we send the password unhashed and a flag to mark that it is unhashed. We then build the hash (if it's unhashed) and compare it to the stored hash.
This...
Started by Master of Disaster on
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JavaScript....
Also, SSL proves that the server they're logging into is not someone impersonating you .
Then you can just send the password as is.
You SSL.
Note, that if you only hash the password, the hash is going to be exactly the same each time.
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I'm implementing a password + password hint code I and want to prevent the user from making the password hint reveal the actual password right away.
Here are the scenario that I want to prevent:
Lets say that the password is: foobar123
Then the password...
Started by Shay Erlichmen on
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This way you need not provide a hint, simply a means of changing the password in response....
The user's email address, you could simply have a password reset that sends a link with an encoded key that allows a one-time password change.
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I'm wondering what the best method is for creating a forgot password function on a website. I have seen quite a few out there, here are a few or combination of:
passphrase question / answer (1 or more) send email with new password on screen give new password...
Started by Darryl Hein on
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This ensures that the person who wanted the password will be the only only getting will discover this immediately (as their....
FORCE a password change when they arrive and key in the new password.
Send email with new password.
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On a website I'm working we have an onsite login and a private login, the problem I'm having is that Firefox doesn't seem to be able to differentiate between these login forms.
Does anybody know how I can make clear that these are different logins?
I ...
Started by Javache on
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The password (encrypted and secured with Firefox Master....
A password-manager entry is stored with the following data
The username (encrypted and secured with Firefox Master Password).
Due to the way Firefox stores its passwords.
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So, I've been playing with asp:PasswordRecovery and discovered I really don't like it, for several reasons:
1) Alice's password can be reset even without having access to Alice's email. A security question for password resets mitigates this, but does ...
Started by Brian on
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by 3 people.
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I think that if you force the user to....
A plain-text password through email? Either way, somebody with access to the email address can gain access to the account, whether it's through knowing the new password or through following the link.
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Although the PDF specification is available from Adobe, it's not exactly the simplest document to read through. PDF allows documents to be encrypted so that either a user password and/or an owner password is required to do various things with the document...
Started by Tony Meyer on
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If no user password was set you simply.
All passwords need to be 32 bytes at the start of computing the encryption key, either by truncating or adding some of those padding bytes.
To apply to any password.
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