Tag: password

Password reset questions are getting out of hand

Screen Shot 2013-03-24 at 4.09.58 PM As soon as the Web had developed sites that required logging into, it also developed the problem of lost passwords. The solution for that was simple: password reset questions. You’ve probably run into these a hundred times and they are typically the same questions on every site, like “Where…

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Non-interactive (Unattended) password change under Ubuntu

Last night I had programmatically created a large number of users on a server. Today, I started getting emails from the users complaining that their new accounts didn’t work. Turns out my user creation script had not set their passwords correctly, so I needed to reset everyone’s password. Try as I might, I could not…

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