On Jan 11, 2012 5:57 PM, "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... > > http://passwordmaker.org/ >
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