On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:07 -0500 Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> On 2012-01-10 2:12 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen > <h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > The simpelest solution should be to copy the password-hash of a user > > whose password is know to you. > > Afterwards you can log in an change the password again. > > Thanks, I like that better and it worked like a charm, this way the > root account is never unprotected (even for a minute)... although > remote root login is disabled anyway... > > > And for the future:http://xkcd.com/936/ ;) > > I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can > have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto > fills the username/password for me (if it is a web login page), but > doesn't store any password anywhere... Of course it stores the password somewhere. How else could it log you in next time? It isn't magic, it retrieves the password from somewhere. > > http://passwordmaker.org/ > -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com