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Process of acquiring access to a system's (advanced) functions by proving identity, frequently by supplying a password.

Usually access is acquired by providing the system with authentication details such as a user account's password. A login procedure can also include authentication by means of keys, smart cards, fingerprints or any other digital authentication method.

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How can I give my wife emergency access to logins, passwords, etc.?

I'm the digital guru in my household. My wife is good with email and forum websites, but she trusts me with all our important digital stuff — online banking and other things that require passwords; also family photos and the plethora of other…
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How do I ensure Git doesn't ask me for my GitHub username and password?

I am working with a repo on GitHub and everytime I try to push something, it asks for my GitHub username and password. I don't want it doing that. I tried the instructions on setting your email in Git, namely set up the Git variables github.user and…
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mysql how to fix Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

Before I screw up something, when I login using $ mysql -u root -p, and show databases: +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | mysql | | performance_schema | | game_data …
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Why is my SSH login slow?

I'm seeing delays in SSH Logins. Specifically, there are 2 spots where I see a range from instantaneous to multi-second delays. Between issuing the ssh command and getting a login prompt and between entering the passphrase and having the shell…
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How do I enable Automatic Logon in Windows 7 when I'm on a domain?

When Windows 7 is joined to a domain the option to automatically login is no longer available in the advanced User Management console. Since I am running a small home domain because of SharePoint and TFS, how would I go about enabling this…
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Sharing the same `ssh-agent` among multiple login sessions

Is there a convenient way to ensure that all logins from a given user (ie me) use the same ssh-agent? I hacked out a script to make this work most of the time, but I suspected all along that there was some way to do it that I had just missed. …
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What is the default username and password for SonarQube?

What is the default username and password for a fresh installation of SonarQube? Or how do you create a user?
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Force logout a user

I When I logged into the machine as root and typed who to see which users are logged in, I found somebody else too logged in as root devuser pts/0 2011-11-18 09:55 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) root pts/1 2011-11-18 09:56…
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Show Windows 7 logon time?

On Windows 7 Ultimate, is there a way to see when I logged on into the current session? I want to find out how long I have been at the PC / when I started it up.
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How to automount SMB shared network drives in Mac OS X Lion

In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Apple has replaced good old SMB support. Now I can't auto connect to my shared (SMB) network drives. Workarounds? Or is this impossible? In OS X Snow Leopard, I could automatically connect my Ubuntu (SMB) shared network…
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How can I block the “Sign in with Google” prompt on websites?

On many websites that require login, those annoying Google login prompts appear: There are several tutorials on the Internet on how to avoid this, for example, this one on How-To Geek, which suggest disabling an option in the Google account.…
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how do I see which user I am logged in as in MySQL?

I have multiple text console session open and log in as different users into different consoles. I forget after while which consoles belong to which user, it would be nice to not have to quit and log back in. How do I see which user I am logged in…
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How to have num lock enabled by default on log on screen?

I'm using a PIN code to log on my computer. However, Num ⇩ is always turned off, even if on before shutting down my computer. This is quite annoying as I always have to retype my PIN. I've tried the suggestions here (same as here). But with no…
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Login with Linux FTP username and password

What's the command for logging in with FTP all with one line? ftp username:password@my.domain.com says: Password required for username:password
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Automatically run a script when I log on to Windows

How can I automatically run a script when I log on to Windows? I'd like to run something like this whenever I log into my computer: echo %USERNAME% logged on at %DATE% %TIME% >> log.txt A bonus would be to be able to run the same script whenever I…
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