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I have lost all passwords for a SQL Server instance, how do I give myself admin access again?
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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?
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How can I use Membership.GeneratePassword to return a password that ONLY contains alpha or numeric characters? The default method will only guarantee a minimum and not a maximum number of non alphanumeric passwords.
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