To change your password for accessing Subversion Typically this would be handled by your Subversion server administrator. If that’s you and you are using the built-in authentication, then edit your [repository]\conf\passwd file on your Subversion server machine. To delete locally-cached credentials Follow these steps: Right-click your desktop and select TortoiseSVN->Settings Select Saved Data. Click Clear … Read more
Yes, they should. It annoys me to no end when people decide how my password should behave especially when it’s nonsensical. I would like more than 8 characters please. You should be hashing the password, so maximum character lengths and spaces at the end don’t matter. No, you should not trim it. You require a … Read more
Are you looking for the prompt function? var response = prompt(“What is your name?”); alert(“Hello, ” + response); The dialog will look something like this: This this probably isn’t the best way to get password input, because it does not mask the input. Instead, consider using an HTML form with a password input field. Maybe … Read more
You are correct that storing passwords in plaintext and in a settings.py file is not good security. You could increase security by: Setting the permissions correctly (this will depend on your set up). Ideally only python should be able to read the file. Storing the file out of the www or htdocs root. If at … Read more
Just use autocomplete=”new-password” at the confirmation input. And if you choose to generate a new password in the password input, the confirmation input gets filled with the same value instantly. Tested in chrome. Reference: chrome advice html standard discussion
The way OP answered his own question is one way to go about it. The Windows Credential Store project was discontinued in 2015. Its original author suggests to use Git Credential Manager for Windows, maintained by Microsoft. Their installer is focused on Git for Windows, however the program itself works well with Cygwin, you just … Read more
based on this post you can do: Create a command which open a ssh session using SSH_ASKPASS (seek SSH_ASKPASS on man ssh) $ cat > ssh_session <<EOF export SSH_ASKPASS=”/path/to/script_returning_pass” setsid ssh “your_user”@”your_host” EOF NOTE: To avoid ssh to try to ask on tty we use setsid Create a script which returns your password (note echo … Read more
A new salt should be randomly generated for each user and each time they change their password as a minimum. Don’t just rely on a site wide salt for example, as that defeats the point of using a salt in the first place. Using a unique salt for each user is so that if two … Read more
If you are choosing a hashing system yourself, rather than building an app using an existing database which already contains hashed passwords, then you should make sure your hashing algorithm also uses a salt. Don’t just use a plain digest. A good choice is bcrypt, which we now support directly in Spring Security 3.1 via … Read more
You can try: echo “USERNAME:NEWPASSWORD” | chpasswd