I am sure there is no technical problem but maybe gmail and hotmail are not supporting that on purpose. This kind of websites have a wide audience and should be accessible from everywhere. Let’s imagine the user have a password in Japanese but he is on travel and go to a cyber cafe and there … Read more
If you actually have set a root password and you’ve just lost/forgotten it: Stop MySQL Restart it manually with the skip-grant-tables option: mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables Now, open a new terminal window and run the MySQL client: mysql -u root Reset the root password manually with this MySQL command: UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘password’) WHERE User=”root”; If you … Read more
I’ll mark this as answered, as I solved my problem and no other comments or answers were given: Edit 1 – Alternative 1 answers the original question BUT I had to learn that customized password salting is a legacy approach that is not needed in Spring Security 3.1 any more, as I describe in Edit … Read more
I personally would send an email with a link to a short term page that lets them set a new password. Make the page name some kind of UID. If that does not appeal to you, then sending them a new password and forcing them to change it on first access would do as well. … Read more
You can disable paste in your input as follows: html: <input type=”text” value=”” id=”myInput”> javascript: window.onload = () => { const myInput = document.getElementById(‘myInput’); myInput.onpaste = e => e.preventDefault(); } Talking about security, I wouldn’t say that this makes any impact. You would usually use client side and well as server-side validation of data submitted … Read more
Yes, it is possible using JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(). Something like this: JPanel panel = new JPanel(); JLabel label = new JLabel(“Enter a password:”); JPasswordField pass = new JPasswordField(10); panel.add(label); panel.add(pass); String[] options = new String[]{“OK”, “Cancel”}; int option = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null, panel, “The title”, JOptionPane.NO_OPTION, JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE, null, options, options[1]); if(option == 0) // pressing OK button { char[] … Read more
Restricting the size of a password is an attempt to save storage space. It pretty much indicates that your password is being stored plainly in their database, so they want to restrict its size. Otherwise it’s just a restriction because the implementors don’t know any better. Either way it’s a bad sign. You might want … Read more
I use the follwing code to salt and hash passwords. var bcrypt = require(‘bcrypt’); exports.cryptPassword = function(password, callback) { bcrypt.genSalt(10, function(err, salt) { if (err) return callback(err); bcrypt.hash(password, salt, function(err, hash) { return callback(err, hash); }); }); }; exports.comparePassword = function(plainPass, hashword, callback) { bcrypt.compare(plainPass, hashword, function(err, isPasswordMatch) { return err == null ? callback(null, … Read more
Have a look at vt-password: configurable, allowing the deployer to supply different dictionaries, adjust weights of different criteria, and so on – Partially (yes to configurable, dictionaries, no to weighted criteria) extensible allowing new criteria to be implemented if required – Yes implemented in pure Java – Yes (and decent javadoc) not fundamentally intertwined with … Read more
Go to this file in: WampFolder\apps\phpmyadmin[phpmyadmin version]\config.inc.php Usually wamp is in your main hard drive folder C:\wamp\ You will see something like: $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘user’] = ‘YOUR USER NAME IS HERE’; $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘password’] = ‘AND YOU PASSWORD IS HERE’; Try using the password and username that you have on that file.