The summer is upon us. Our users are watching videos like this one: While it’s actually way easier than what they show here, let’s look at stopping people from circumventing our admin goodness using the old school firmware password. Keep in mind, these passwords are somewhat easily reversible as they’re encrypted in a junior varsity way, so don’t use the same password that you use for anything else. To create our password in a script, we’re going to use EFIPW available http://code.google.com/p/efipw. Move the download to somewhere like /usr/local/bin folder. Then, to set the password to supah-secret: efipw_0.2b.py -p supah-secret -m command The client will now be in command mode,…
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Resetting a WordPress Password
Sometimes you can bite yourself a little when you experiment around with things. I installed a security plug-in and the next thing you know I couldn’t log into my own website. Ouch. Not a huge deal as it actually led to experimentation with the MySQL tables for WordPress, which oddly enough, I’ve typically just left well enough alone. But this I figured was gonna’ need to be updated eventually (although I relished the opportunity to get caught up on some stuff in the meantime). So first up, SSH into your box. Then fire up mysql: mysql -u root -p Turns out there’s a wp_users table in there. For my user…
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Windows Boot CDs
Some bootable CDs that will perform a variety of tasks for Windows: Ultra Boot CD Ultimate Boot CD Ultimate Boot CD for Windows Emergency Boot CD Hiren’s Boot CD System Restore CD Windows Password Reset
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Xsan: Reset Qlogic Password
Lost the password for your Qlogic? You can TFTP a new firmware file into a 5xxx switch and then do a factory reset while it’s in maintenance mode (follow the instruction exactly as they are in the latest version of the manual for your switch). Or if you have a serial adapter you can break the boot sequence by using the space bar during boot. At the prompt use: factory 1 If you factory reset it then the default IP address will be 10.0.0.1 again and the default password will be back to password. If you have the password and just want to reset it back to factory defaults then you…