I recently needed the MySQL root password on a server of mine to complete a task but had misplaced it and was unable to locate it. Thinking that I had seriously goofed up I was worried. Luckily, resetting the password was surprisingly simple.
All you will need is root access to your VM and...
I wanted to generate some one time passwords to allow a friend to login 10 times via scp to download some stuff. Sounds strange but I wanted to ensure that he is not using the account for anything else.
So there are two things todo:
Generate one time passwords
Lock a user to scp only
Let's...
