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How can I store my connection passwords in putty?
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I am accessing a shared hosting account through Putty / SSH.
The account is pretty full, 300 MB below its quota.
I need to make a full backup of all data present on the account. Creating a bzip2 file using
tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 directory/*
fails because there is not enough space for the tar…
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I know this is probably a common question, but after looking around for a few hours (on this site and others), I can't find a solution.
I'm trying to set up a simple proxy. I already have a server running Windows Server 2008.
I've installed Cygwin and have OpenSSH installed. I also have sshd (the…
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Hi,
i am SSHing to a RHEL-3 box using Putty. Backspace works correctly, but when I press the "Delete" key the deletion does not happen. Instead, it prints "~" on the screen.
Thanks in advance,
Ajay
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created public/private keys using puttygen on my computer.
put the public key in the .ssh/authorized_keys folder on the server
setup pageant.exe to use the pk on my computer.
when I run pageant, and connecting using putty it still asks me for my password.
what am I missing?
I did do a:
chmod 700…
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I've been using Putty for years now and it seems kind of dated. What are some good alternatives to Putty that use tabs to manage console sessions (managing individual putty windows is a messy pita).
Edit: I've found the holy grail of SSH clients on SO, the PuTTY Connection Manager. Its the same old…
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IE is not filling the password field automatically when i click on the bookmarked url. But it's working on firefix,chrome etc. I tried with autocomplete="on" but no use.
IE will fill the password only When i select a usename from the possible user names which the browser had kept for each login.…
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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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This How-To Geek School class is intended for people who want to learn more about security when using Windows operating systems. You will learn many principles that will help you have a more secure computing experience and will get the chance to use all the important security tools and features that…
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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.
I have the solution already but thought I'd share for future visitors.
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So, I've been playing with asp:PasswordRecovery and discovered I really don't like it, for several reasons:
1) Alice's password can be reset even without having access to Alice's email. A security question for password resets mitigates this, but does not really satisfy me.
2) Alice's new password…
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