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Wednesday, 06 July 2011 12:28 |
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How To Set Up A Web-Based Enterprise Password Manager Protected By Two-Factor Authentication
While it is great that more services such as Facebook and Google are
offering two-factor authentication, there are still plenty of services
that do not. What is the next best thing? Using a password manager and
incredibly complex passwords. A password manager allows you to use
different passwords at all the sites and services you visit, but it
creates a 'keys-to-the-kingdom' problem. This tutorial will show you
how to install the WebKeePass open-source web-based, enterprise password manager and how to protect it with two-factor authentication from WiKID Systems.
Note that we have not evaluated the security of WebKeePass - this
would certainly be worthwhile. Our primary selection criteria were:
open-source, multi-user and allowed for external authentication, in this
case via LDAP. Another option that looked promising was CorporateVault. Read more: |
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Sunday, 19 June 2011 06:54 |
Check if MySQL is running. (display all sockets with TCP protocol, show program name for them)
netstat -tap | grep mysql
Stop MySQL:
sudo stop mysql
or
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Start MySQL server so that everyone could connect without a password and with all privileges (+ prevent remote clients from connecting for security reasons):
sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking
In another shell tab connect to MySQL without password
mysql
Update passwords in the MySQL:
mysql> update mysql.user set password = password('your_new_password') where user = 'root';
mysql> flush privileges;
Stop the MySQL server:
sudo mysqladmin shutdown
Start normally:
sudo start mysql
Connect normally:
mysql -u root -p
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