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On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:07 -0500 |
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Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen |
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> <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user |
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> > whose password is know to you. |
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> > Afterwards you can log in an change the password again. |
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> Thanks, I like that better and it worked like a charm, this way the |
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> root account is never unprotected (even for a minute)... although |
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> remote root login is disabled anyway... |
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> > And for the future:http://xkcd.com/936/ ;) |
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> I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can |
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> have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto |
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> fills the username/password for me (if it is a web login page), but |
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> doesn't store any password anywhere... |
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Of course it stores the password somewhere. How else could it log you |
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in next time? It isn't magic, it retrieves the password from somewhere. |
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> http://passwordmaker.org/ |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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