Tag: password

Between?

Nick Momrik1 Comment

When resetting your Meijer password you get this on the form.

meijer-password-reset.png

I assume they meant “between” instead of “at least” because those two words don’t make any sense with a range. After putting in my randomly generated password I got an error because I had used symbols that weren’t allowed, yet the instructions don’t say anything about symbols.

If you are developing a system and restricting password lengths to something so small with odd character restrictions, you’re doing it wrong. Allow 64 character passwords everywhere!

Hiding Password Input When Running a Remote Script

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I have a simple local script, which logs into a remote server (my WordPress.com sandbox) via ssh to run a script there. After finishing, it runs another local command (unison) to pull down all of the files. The remote script is also very simple, calling svn update on several repos. If I ssh directly into the server and run the svn script, typing in passwords correctly shows up as a series of asterisks (****). Executing the same script remotely was showing the actual characters in my local terminal. Not ideal for security.

A Stack Overflow comment gave me what I needed. Wrap the ssh command with some stty commands.

stty_orig=`stty -g`
stty -echo

ssh USER@HOST './script.sh;'

stty $stty_orig

This turns off the output of the password entry completely. I never type in the password since it’s a copy/paste from 1Password, so not having the asterisks is no big deal.