I was designing a form which asks the user to type in a password and then to verify again in the next field. I noticed however, that if I copy and paste from the first password field to the other, the values are not same. It seems my Firefox running on Mac OS X, copies the asterisk graphic instead, which has the value '\x95' Is it poss...
Hello, I'm looking for help to convert an ASCII MD5 hashed password into a Unicode MD5 hashed password? For example, I'll use the string "password" . When it's converted to an ascii byte array, I get a base64 encoded hash of X03MO1qnZdYdgyfeuILPmQ== When it's converted into a unicode byte array, I get a base64 encoded hash of sIHb6F4...
I am re-factoring my application to implement the MVVM design and i came across my first problem... Compiler won't let me bind to the Password property of the PasswordBox control. Anyone have any ideas / suggestions. ...
I'm trying to set up spring security 3 to authenticate users against my hibernate 3 database. I'm storing only sha1 hashes of the passwords in the database (not plaintext). I've looked at this and this, which tell me to implement my own UserDetailsService. Unfortunately, the UserDetails that loadUserByUsername spits out seem to need the...
Hi all, I'm trying to create a custom registration component for Joomla, and I was wondering if anyone knew how to create the correct password encryption for joomla? Joomla passwords look like this : fbae378704687625a410223a61c66eb1:VM6DwmVWHTwpquDq51ZXjWWADCIc93MR Which I believe are md5 (or something) and one way encryption? Am just...
Running the below shell script seems to ignore the password file I'm feeding it. I'm continually prompted for it. If I enter it, the rest of the script goes without a hitch, but as I'm running it via cron, I really need to get it to read from the file... Any suggestions? #!/bin/sh p=$(<password.txt) set -- $p pass_phrase=$1 destinatio...
Hi, I have a site where users can enter their profile and password-protect certain details. I would like search engines to crawl the 'unprotected' parts of the profile (which varies from user to user). Similar to how if you enter a user's name in facebook, their Facebook profile comes up in the search results. Do I have to do anything ...
Hello I want to to implement password recovery in my web application. I'd like to avoid using secret questions. I could just send the password by e-mail but I think it would be risky. Maybe I could generate a new temporary random password and send it by e-mail but I think it is as risky as the above point. Can I send a url by e-mail ...
Hi, I am creating an application in which user selects files and provides credentials to open that file. For that i have created three columns in a gridview. User enters password in password column. I want to display '*' in place of characters like we can create a textbox of password type. I have tried this code on 'GridView_CellClick' ...
Hi, A particular sharepoint web application(site collection) is continuously prompting for username and password indefinite times and not letting the users to view the application properly. But when we add the users to Farm Administrators, the web application(site collection) is working fine. But ideally, we can’t add all users to Far...
I have wrote a user manager script the uses NTLMSetUserInfo to set passwords of some users, including ADMIN... What I have noticed though is that if I do this the username / password combination works perfectly for all scenarios such as Telnet, HTTP Auth etc but NOT file browsing. Upon further inspection I noticed that when setting the ...
I've come across a system that is in use by a company that we are considering partnering with on a medium-sized (for us, not them) project. They have a web service that we will need to integrate with. My current understanding of proper username/password management is that the username may be stored as plaintext in the database. Every u...
Hi, I want to create password field in Data Grid view in WinForm c# .NET. How should i proceed? ...
I need to store a password has in a SQL server 2000 database. The information isn't critical but I really don't want to store the password in clear text. How can I get a unique hash (sha, sha1, md5, etc) in SQL server 2000 as HashBytes isn't available. I'm not looking for compiled DLL or the ilk, I dont have access to the server, needs ...
OK I see a lot of people asking about passing other values, URLS, random stuff through a URL, but don't find anything about sending a password to a password field. Here is my situation: I have a ton of sites I use on a daily basis with my work and oh about 90% require logins. Obviously remembering 80 bajillion logins for each site is d...
We have PITR setup and WAL shipping enabled. We would like to change the password for the user postgres. The process is simple enough. However, since we cannot connect to the SLAVE how would we make sure all passwords are in synch? Would temporarily disabling WAL shipping allow me to connect to the slave to change the password there? I c...
Hi mates, i looking some help and nice attention here.. i bought some php script many years ago and now no suport anymore... i just want to add md5 to password field.. here my form: <?php $SQL = "SELECT * from USERS WHERE USERNAME = '$_SESSION[username]'"; $result = @mysql_query( $SQL ); $row = @mysql_fetch_array( $result ); include...
Hello, I am not a guru of the stack tracing, at all. I even don't know how to get some. Anyway, I am wondering if entering a password entered in an inputbox is safe. Can't it be retrieved by getting a stack trace ? A password entered that way will be found in many places : Caption property of the TEdit Result of the function which ...
Adding support for Unicode passwords it an important feature that should not be ignored by developers. Still, adding support for Unicode in passwords is a tricky job because the same text can be encoded in different ways in Unicode and you don't want to prevent people from logging in because of this. Let's say that you'll store the pa...
It need not be meaningful words - more like random password generation, but the catch is - they should be unique. I will be using this for some kind of package / product code. Which is the best method available? :) ...