Password Questions


What can we do to better protect ourselves from authentication-based attacks?
According to the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, authentication-based attacks continue to plague enterprises as 80% of all attacks collected by Verizon (and other partners) were authentication-based. Who’s to blame for these attacks? Well. Tom Bowers, regional security architect at ePlus, says it’s users and their passwords. What can we do to better protect [...]

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2013  1:06 PM
Password, Security, Security management
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14,060 pts.

Change email address and password
I forgot my password and my email address had been disconnected. How do I get my pass code?

Answer Question   |  February 26, 2013  9:03 PM
Email account, Password
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10 pts.

Password Protection at Folder Level in Citrix
My company runs a Citrix network on thin clients. Each user has a directory. Obviously in each directory are our folders. My company administrator has access to all aspects of our system. Since i own the company, i have certain folders & files that i consider proprietary. How can I password protect my directory or [...]

Answer Question   |  October 8, 2010  9:33 PM
Citrix Server, Folder security, Password, Security
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5 pts.

ssid
what does ssid mean?

Answer Question   |  February 26, 2012  3:10 AM
Password, SSID
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5 pts.

Encrypting passwords on SQL server 2000
I m using SQL server 2000 and I want to use a password field for Employee Master. My question is how to encrypt this password field in my insert query. I have heard about the “EncryptByPassPhrase” function and symmetric key, but it is provided from SQL Server 2005. I have tried using pwdencrypt which is [...]

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2010  7:00 PM
Encryption, Password, Password field, SQL Server 2000
2,585 pts.

Can I get a wires driver that unblocks passwords of a recognized area?
Can I get a wires driver that unblocks passwords of a recognized area?

Answer Question   |  September 18, 2009  7:00 PM
Drivers, Password, wires, wires drivers
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1,545 pts.

How do I create user specific access passwords to limit folder access on a server?
How can I make it so users are prompted for a password when they select their folder on a network using Windows 2003 server?

Answer Question   |  September 16, 2009  5:23 PM
Network access, Network administration, Networking, Networking security, Password, Windows server 2003 upgrades and migration
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1,545 pts.

putting space in passward
Is it bad If I put a <space> in between words or alphabets for a password. what are the standards on should follow while giving a password to any system

Answer Question   |  June 29, 2009  4:31 AM
Password, Password strength
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5 pts.

authorization
how to add the parameters in creating the user.for eg max password length must be 3.

Answer Question   |  June 30, 2009  1:22 AM
Authentication, Password
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30 pts.

App that allows URLs with associated usernames and passwords
I would like to create an application that enables a user to store multiple urls with associated usernames and passwords. When a user clicks on a link the application automatically logs the user into the associated url. Unfortunately I cant seem to search for this type of application because all search criteria leads to a [...]

Answer Question   |  June 22, 2009  4:05 AM
log on, Password, URL
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10 pts.

Can a user have multiple concurrent signons (sessions)
the Voice Recognition system that resets users passwords tries to reset a password for UserA, but when UserB is requesting a password reset at the same time it only processes it for one of the users?

Answer Question   |  June 11, 2009  11:01 AM
Concurrent sign-ons, Password
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15 pts.

Password protected Microsoft Outlook .PST file
User’s .pst file has password set on it, such that if I reinstall Office 2003 package it requests for Personal Folders password..How do I reset and/or remove this configuration

Answer Question   |  August 8, 2009  10:44 AM
.PST files, .PST password breaking, Microsoft Office 2003, Outlook 2003, Password
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50 pts.

SUSE Linux – forgotten passwords
how can I replace forgotten passwords in suse linux desktop?

Answer Question   |  June 16, 2010  11:13 AM
Linux security, Password, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Desktop
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5 pts.

Auto prompt for password expiration in Red Hat Linux
I’m redhat 8.0. I would like the os to prompt for password change automatically, after expiry. How do i go about doing it. Thanks

Answer Question   |  August 30, 2009  6:25 AM
Linux security, Password, Password expiration interval, Password policies, Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Linux 8
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5 pts.

Password expiration interval change
Me have to set password expiration interval 21 days from 30 days,if directlty I do this users who have not chnage the password for 21 days will get expire,in order to avoid this situation, is there any command so that I can expire users password at once to change thier password.

Answer Question   |  April 7, 2009  5:26 AM
Password, Password expiration interval, Password management
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55 pts.

Pasword complexity validation program
Is anybody have the password complexity validation program ,which can force user to use special characters in password.

Answer Question   |  March 30, 2009  9:58 AM
Authentication, Password, Password strength, Password validation program
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55 pts.

SOLVED: Password Locking issue in Windows XP Pro
Password Locking issue – SOLVED DETAILS - just in case anyone else has this problem !!! Hi Folks - I don’t know how often this site experiences someone logging a question – to which they also include the answer . . . BUT – hey – I like being different !!! ) Anyway – I [...]

Answer Question   |  March 30, 2009  10:06 PM
Clean install, Corrupted Registry, No password existed, Password, Password Locking issue, Win XP (Pro), Win XP Pro refuses to allow user past login screen, Windows Registry, Windows XP, Windows XP administration
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235 pts.

Windows Server 2003 forgotten password
How do I access Windows Server 2003 if I have forgotten my admin password?

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  6:09 AM
Administrator password, Forgotten password, Password, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration, Windows Server 2003 security
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60 pts.

My computer is logged in with unknown password
My computer is loged with unknown password how can i un lock it

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2011  10:59 PM
Endpoint security, Login, Login password, Password
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5 pts.

When I boot my laptop I have a Black Screen Password to be entered?
I have a IBM, Thinkpad T-22 with Windows XP. When I boot the computer a black screen comes up and asked for a password. I have taken that hard drive out and put it into another computer and the samething happens. Correct me if I am wrong but, I believe that the hard drive has [...]

Answer Question   |  February 20, 2009  7:44 AM
Authentication, BIOS password, IBM T22 Thinkpad, Password, Windows XP
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5 pts.