Procedures, policies and constraints on password entry, lifetime, change, strength, and storage. An essential part of access management, together with policies on other forms of authentication.
Questions tagged [password-management]
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How to run smbpasswd as root on AIX?
I have Hitachi ID Password Manager (formerly p-synch) set up to change the password on (among other systems) an aix 6.1 server running samba. p-synch has the capability of executing additional commands by configuring "chat script" in the conf file.…
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How to change Account Lockout Threshold when the path cannot be found
I am trying to change the account lockout threshold for all the users on our domain. The threshold should be three, but there are users who get locked out after one mistyped password, and others who can try six or seven times before getting locked…
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Cannot enforce password change in OpenLDAP with Password Policy Overlay
I've implemented Password Policy Overlay on OpenLDAP on Debian Stable. The server side and the policies are working as expected. However, after expiration I cannot force users to change their passwords. User logs in, gets a message that their…
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How to store admin passwords in a way that can be accessed by multiple admins?
How to store all the admin passwords for routers, servers, desktop computers in the network if they need to be accessible by multiple admins?
There are so many that they can't be memorised and they also change in certain time intervals. Should we…
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Mapped Network Drives Persistently Requesting Credentials
I run a small office network with one Windows 2008 R2 DC and eight Windows 8.1 clients connecting to it. All of the machines have computer accounts on the domain and each user has an old school logon batch file that maps two shared folders with…
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Group Policy "Maximum password age" fails to apply
In my Windows network with all AD servers (still) running Windows 2003, I encounter the following problem: The "Maximum password age" policy apparently does not apply. Even though some of the users have indeed been asked to change their password…
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Remote Windows user's password will not update
One of our remote users had his domain account password expire, so he logged onto a terminal server in the same site as the RRAS server he uses for RA VPN to reset his password. He stays connected 24/7 to RRAS, there are two DC's in the same site,…
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Password lifetimes, length, complexity and history. Is there something to help?
I need to implement some better control for passwords on a our slackware servers. I have always manually done this but the need for some automation routines to handle a lifetime check, length, complexity and history. Does anyone know of a utility…
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How to manage credentials on multiserver environment
I have a some software that uses its own encrypted file for password storage ( such as ftp, web and other passwords to login to external systems, there is no way to use certificates ).
On each server I've several instances of this software, each…
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tools for user account management for solaris and linux platforms
we have a setup consisting of 60+ hosts (solaris and linux).
we would like to develop/install a tool that helps us with passwd resets, account creation/deletion, and other common user account mgmt tasks.
we have looked at webmin , puppet and…
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Where is my Users Account -> Advanced Tab?
I'm running XP Pro SP-3.
I want to manage my user network passwords as in this tab:
But for some reason when I go to my user accounts I get a different view and nowhere to get to this feature.
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Locating services running as an Active Directory user account
My organization's password policy requires that passworsds for two accounts in particular be updated/changed on a regular basis.
Is there a way to determine where a particular AD user account has been used? I am trying to determine what will break…
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How do you keep track of machines, password, accounts etc?
Possible Duplicates:
How do you manage your passwords?
How do you manage service account credentials (passwords) ?
I've long since passed the line where I can remember passwords and names of everything I need for daily operation.
That means…
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Why is a linux account not accepting old password after changing password expiration to "never" using chage?
CentOS 5.x
I have an old user account that had a password policy in effect that expired.
[foo@foobox ~]# chage -l foouser
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 90
Warning: 5
Inactive: 5
Last Change: Jan 02, 2012
Password Expires:…
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AD User Passwords expiring without any notifications?
We setup password Policies in Active Directory to Expire peoples passwords after so many days. Well it looks like the time has come for the Expiration of the Passwords and people are getting locked out...
There has been no warning of user passwords…
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