Tag: password
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Terminal Based Multi-Factor Authentication Token
Overview More and more sites are now offering Multifactor Authentication (MFA) authenticate with soft-token applications such as Google Authenticator or AWS Virtual MFA. Some websites that now allow MFA authentication are: Google Apps, AWS, Dropbox, etc… Here we will go over settting up a token generating app in a terminal. This saves me digging my phone out every time I log…
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AWS hijinx: Windows instances launched from AMI fail to get new password, password recovery only makes things worse
More Windows, more password problems When a Windows Server 2008R2 instance is launched from a custom AMI, the Amazon EC2Config service is supposed to generate a new random password for the administrator account. Instead when trying to use the “Get Windows Password” option. the user is presented with the dreaded “Your password is not Ready”…