I wanted to change my password on a unix machine. I did a normal "passwd" and typed in my old and my new password.
Then the machine came back to me with the following message:
BAD PASSWORD: is too similar to the old one
That got me thinking... Does that mean, the machine has my password in clear text somewhere? Otherwise it should not be able to compare the old and the new password, right? Or is there a hash function, that enables that?
Is there a way to recover the password for a jdbc datasource, which I used in a Weblogic Application server? I could change it, but since I'm not entirely sure, where we use the database, that would be rather complicated.
I have full administrative rights for the server, so if I have to look something up, in config files etc that would be ok.
We have an application running on WebSphere which does (apart from other things) logging with timestamps.
These timestamps are GMT. We are in the CET Timezone (Germany).
WebSphere allows to specify in which Timezone you are, by way of specifying a custom property for the JVM: TZ=CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00 (just like in Unix).
The problem: It only works kind of... Instead of GMT the timestamps seem to be GMT-1 (instead of 15:00 we have 14:00). So the Daylight Savings time is not accounted for, although it is specified in the Variable...
Anyone has an idea how to set that right?