passwords

I just stumbled across the fact that the Password property of WPF PasswordBox es is not bindable for security reasons , which makes using them quite cumbersome in a MVVM context. Answers like https://stackoverflow.com/a/1493330/3198247 suggest that otherwise, the password might be stored in plain text in memory at runtime, which would be a bad idea since it could potentially be read by malware. However, I still don't seem to understand the reason in general or that answer. There, it says Keeping your password in plain text on the client machine RAM is a security no-no. . However, the password

I am currently using expect to pass in passwords so my scripts can run automatically without me having to sit around and type in the same password over and over again. Important: Please don't comment about how big of a security risk this is or how I should be using ssh keys, I would use those if I could, but the setup I have to work with doesn't allow it. My code looks like the following: #!/bin/sh PASS=mypassword /usr/bin/expect -c " spawn python Tools/python/install.py expect -nocase \"password:\" {send \"$PASS\r\"; interact} " The problem I have is that install.py prompts for the same

Where I work, some databases get copied down from our production environment to our test environment, but the DBAs set all the passwords to expired on the (new) test DB right after the copy so that the production passwords are not known. So if I run sqlplus and connect to the test db with a specific username it immediately prompts me for a new password. Is there a way via a java app or shell scripting to automate the changing of an expired oracle 10g database password for a specific user? On Unix If you're on unix, you can do with a shell script. I have tested it like so: drop user foo cascade

I have a simple C# windows form which acts as a login, but also has a form to change the password of a user. When you click on Change Password the form loads with a text box of current password, new pass and confirm new pass, and one save button. I have stored username in label so that current password can be checked if it is valid from database or not. I am storing these in a table which I created in Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The code is as follows so far. SqlConnection connect = new SqlConnection(str); connect.Open(); string username = label_username.Text; string password = textBox_Current

I have an ASP.NET application that requires impersonation as an administrator user. In web.config: <identity impersonate="true" userName="administrator" password="password"/> The customer complained about saving the password in clear text format. Is there a way to save the password here as hashed? aspnet_regiis with the appropriate switch should do the trick, see this article. 来源： https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2912903/how-to-use-hashed-password-in-impersonate-of-asp-net

A friend of mine and me are having a discussion about whether we should pre-hash the passwords of the users of our webapp before sending it to our servers. I know that there are multiple questions that already handle this topic but they're all about transferring it securely to the server. Our idea is not about the transfer security (we use SSL) we want to hash clientside to prevent that the "real" passwords reach our server. The idea came as Twitter announced their bug that caused passwords to be printed to a logfile in cleartext. We are currently discussing about whether this concept makes