When you’re stuck without sysop access to MediaWiki because you cannot remember the sysop details then there’s a handy maintenance script that’s available (if you’ve used the package manager) to reset the sysop username and password.
On Ubuntu server you can run the following command:
php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/changePassword.php –user=sysop –password=password
The script will immediately reset your sysop username and [...]

Today, I had to setup an Oki C5650 on a network, and find out how many pages had passed through it due to an surprisingly quick turnaround in toner. I was struggling to find the default admin password for the web interface as it wasn’t in the online manual.
Knowling that searching the internet is much [...]

Hashing passwords is a common way to secure them in a database and make sure that they cannot be read easily.
But did you know there’s a website that reverse engineers the hashes and stores them in a searchable database?
The folks over at RedNoize have created such a site.
Obviously, there’s no better protection than keeping your [...]