password-recovery

Cannot login to MySQL database after fresh install with root ID and empty/no password like other older MySQL versions do After you installed MySQL-community-server 5.7 from fresh on linux, you will need to find the temporary password from /var/log/mysqld.log to login as root. grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log Run mysql_secure_installation to change new password ref: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/linux-installation-yum-repo.html There's so many answers out there saying to reinstall mysql or use some combo of mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables and / or UPDATE mysql.user SET

What is the proper way to structure a RESTful resource for resetting a password? This resource is meant to be a password resetter for someone who has lost or forgotten their password. It invalidates their old password and e-mails them a password. The two options that I have are: POST /reset_password/{user_name} or... POST /reset_password -Username passed through request body I'm pretty sure the request should be a POST. I'm less confident that I have selected an appropriate name. And I'm not sure if the user_name should be passed through the URL or the request body. Daniel Vassallo UPDATE:

I've seen various questions regarding this issue, but there are a couple of questions that haven't been asked. If the user forgets their password, I would like them to be able to reset it with only their email address (i.e. there's no security question/answer). The password is stored as a salted hash, so there's no recovery possible. Instead, I'd just like the user to enter a new password after confirming that they have requested a reset. A common method that's been mentioned is to simply: 1) Create a random Guid/Cryptographically strong random number 2) Send a unique URL containing the random

I have a small community website and I need to implement some sort of forgotten password function. I currently store the passwords in the DB, encrypted with MD5 . Is it possible to sort of 'decrypt' and send it to user via email or would I need to have a password reset page? Jared Cobb An MD5 hashed password is not reversible. (MD5 is hashing, and not really encrypting, so there's a subtle difference). And yes you'll definitely want to provide a password "reset" process (and not simply email the password). To give you a high level workflow for secure password resets... When user asks to reset

How to implement password reset in MVC2 application? Passwords are hashed using ASP .NET membership provider. Password recovery question is not used. Standard ASP .NET MVC2 project template with standard AccountController class is used. If user forgots password, email with temporary link or with new password should sent to user e-mail address . Where to find code to implement this in MVC 2 C# ? stack overflow contains two answers which discuss methods about implementing this. There is not sample code. I googled for "asp .net mvc password reset c# sample code download" but havent found sample

I have been following these instructions for resetting root password for local installation of MySQL 5.6 on Windows 7 laptop. I stopped the service, created init-file , and ran the following command (as Administrator): "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\bin\mysqld" --defaults-file="C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini" --init-file=C:\\MySQL-misc\\mysql-init.txt I got the following warning : 2014-02-08 15:44:10 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details). Since it's

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 for example http://example.com/token=xxxx where xxxx is a random token associated with the user. So when the user navigates to that url he/she can reset the password. First off, do not store a plain-text copy of the user's password, or even an encrypted version. You want