Questions tagged [password-generation]
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Cannot create user-defined password profile: KeePass2 says "enforced configuration", but I cannot find it
I'm using KeePass 2.54 installed on a server I'm not managing (please skip pointing out the security implications of it).
When trying to create a user-defined profile for the password generator from ...
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Is there a full character set for Cisco IOS passwords? [closed]
I need to set password generation rule for a large amount of Cisco IOS routers, and am trying to figure out which special characters are permitted.
The problem is that the only piece of cisco ...
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How to make Firefox generate a secure password outside a password field?
I am familiar with getting Firefox to generate a secure password when it detects a password field in a form (as per the answer to How to ask Firefox to suggest a password when filling out registration ...
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Access and password management on Mac OS
is it possible to perform user authentication management with passwords in access control on a Mac computer with a recent Mac OS operating system?
Require users passwords with a minimum length of 12 ...
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Possible Bug in wordlistgenerator crunch in Kali Linux 2020.1?
While trying out the wordlist generator crunch in Kali Linux I came across the following behaviour:
root@kali:/home/kali# crunch 10 10 \
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890,...
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TrueCrypt Container remember keys on board but not shift on/off
I have some really old TrueCrypt Containers. I think I remember the keys and order that they were typed on the keyboard, but not where shift was held down. So I think I can create a dictionary file ...
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How to ask Firefox to suggest a password when filling out registration form on the web?
I am familiar with Safari on my Mac. Safari usually can recognize a registration form prompting for a new password. In such case, Safari automatically offers to generate a new random password.
Does ...
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Merging/Multiplying word lists on linux?
I don't believe there is a word for what I am describing, but heres what im trying to do:
I have two lists of words, one contains one word per line of adjectives, the other contains one line per word ...
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Generate encrypted password for a GNU screen session
How to programatically generate a password for a GNU screen session?
Normally, to define a password for an existing GNU screen, we have to:
Start a screen
Do Ctrl+A :password
Upon reattach, screen ...
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MySQL password restrictions?
I installed MySQL 5.5 on a fresh VM running Ubuntu 14 LTS through apt-get. During installation, I set a root user password generated by a password manager. After installation, I could not access any ...
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\/?' was unexpected at this time error in batch file
I am trying to integrate a password generator into my batch file so that it generates multiple passwords.
Unfortunately it give the following error:
\/?' was unexpected at this time.
The expected ...
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Looking for new way to create password [closed]
I tend to use same 2-3 passwords for all sites and want to change that but want to make sure I standardize my new approach as well.
Looking at password hashing and I know very little other than what ...
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Constant changing password [closed]
Anyway of making a domain account password change (say every 5 minutes) automatically.
Linking to a web app or mobile app would be awesome
Thanks
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dictionary attack on passwords [closed]
I am questioning the common advice given to not use dictionary words in a sentence for a password. For example using "My name is Sue!" as a password. On the websites I host and manage if you don't ...
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Altering a base password for different sites
With the big amount of websites that require a registration or provide a benefit for registering, it is impossible to device and remember a unique password for every account we have. A possible ...
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