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Questions tagged [credentials]

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Automatically refresh credential after password change

Lets say we have around 300 Windows XP machines on our ActiveDirectory domain that are used for processing something. Each has an account which is patterned on the machines name. As these are treated as normal domain accounts, they are subject to…
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can I reset the clock on an expired password in AD?

I have a customer who's users all access the solution via RDP and whom are all set to 'password never expires' in AD. We're enforcing a password expiration policy and introducing a self-serve credential manager to allow the users to change their…
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After openvpn setup client cannot connect "Cannot load inline certificate file"

Good day to everybody! I have tried recently to install & configure openvpn for my server. I have created certificates, tunneling seems to with fine at lease ifconfig shots that tun0 has been initialized. But when i try to connect with…
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How can I tell which users credentials are cached on a local system?

I'm troubleshooting cached credentials on Windows 7, specifically Smart Card logins, and I would like to know how I can find out which users currently have their credentials cached on the machine. I have read How are cached Windows credentials…
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Has March 2015 Patch Tuesday broken 2003 shares?

We have several Windows Server 2003 boxes, and over night, they had their automatic updates installed. This morning, users cannot access shares they were previously able to, and are prompted for credentials. When entering their credentials,…
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How to deal with passwords during automated deployment?

As responsible admins we know of common weaknesses like CWE-260: Password in Configuration File http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/260.html CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/522.html CWE-257:…
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How to manage stored credentials (Windows Vault) for another user than you, e.g. SYSTEM?

When I go to Credential Manager in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008, it lets me edit the cached credentials for my account. Is it possible to edit someone else's stored credentials on the same machine? For example, I have a scheduled task that runs…
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How to add certificate to Windows Credential Manager?

How do you add a certificate from the personal store as a certificate based credential in Windows Credential Manager? When I click on Open the Certificate Manager it just takes me to the Certificate Manager and there is no way to actually select the…
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HAProxy: routing by Basic Auth credentials

I have many requests coming in from a single IP with credentials supplied in the HTTP Header in Basic Auth format. Even though the origin is the same, the credentials vary frequently across requests. This is an API that derives a lot of benefit from…
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Protect SFTP Passwords

A number of non-technical users currently manage secure data with FileZilla on Windows. The SFTP credentials are broadly shared in the organization as a result. I would like to centrally manage credentials so that users cannot directly view them. …
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Windows 7 - Group Policy - Allow RDP Credentials to be Saved

Im trying to use RDP and save my credentials in a file so I dont have to entire it each time I connect. I remember doing it before and it involved changing a group policy setting. What exactly do I need to change in Group Policy within Windows 7 in…
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Workflow for managing client projects on Google Cloud Platform

I have a number of clients with simple cloud platform needs, usually just a maps API key or API key for some other API. Now that Google is enforcing a link to a billing account for each project, it becomes a bit more problematic to manage these API…
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How can use NFS client with credentials on windows 10

I am trying to come up with a SMB alternative solution for my network. I installed NFS Server on a windows 2016. The problem is connecting from windows 10 to that server. I spent almost a day on searching through internet but everybody are…
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Detecting login credentials abuse

Greetings. I am the webmaster for a small, growing industrial association. Soon, I will have to implement a restricted, members-only section for the website. The problem is that our organization membership both includes big companies as well as…
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Avoiding shared accounts on an Active Directory environment

Is it possible to somehow force that one and only one account (in the case the account is shared) is logged to an Active Directory environment at any moment? What we want to do is to discourage the use of "account sharing" where one user shares its…
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