How To Gain Host Access in DNN 3
November 28, 2006 · 2 Comments
Today I forget a password I had set on a website in the past and I could no longer log in to my DNN version 3 website as host anymore. Since passwords are not stored in clear text and there is not a way to reset the host password in DNN 3, I had to come up with my own method to reset the password. Here is how to do it:
Things that this method depends on:
- this depends on having the site enabled to allow user registrations
- also requires you to have dbo access to the database where DNN is installed to
- First register as a new user.
- Then look in the database in the aspnet_users table in the DNN database.
- Find the user you just created and note the UserID field which is a string of numbers and letters.
- Also find this same string for the host account.
- Then in the aspnet_Membership table copy the Password and PasswordSalt fields from the new user you created over the existing hash values for the host account.
- Now you can log in as host using the password created in your new user account we created in step one.
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Categories: Technology · programming
Adware Targets Mac OS X
November 28, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Looks like Microsoft is not the only one ridden with malware anymore. Apple has joined the club in recent days with spyware of its own. The one alarming thing is that it does not require admin priveledges to infect the host Mac computer. I hope this does not spread to the Windows world as the number one defense against malware is running with non-admin rights…
The program, dubbed iAdware by the Finnish security company, is possibly the first example of adware for Macs. It is especially interesting since it doesn’t require administrative privileges to nestle itself on the computers, according to F-Secure
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Categories: blog
Google Ups the Ante with Audio Captchas
November 28, 2006 · 2 Comments
I figured this was just a matter of time until someone implemented this. I wish there was some way to do this based on referrer or browsing habits or something so it was automatic, but then I guess the robots would mimic human behavior anyway…
Captchas were never intended to be purely visual — however, most initial implementations used fuzzy images, and in attempting to lock out automated agents also inadvertently locked out people unable to see the image. As an alternative to these, this past spring Google Services that require verification began to provide an audio alternative — people have the option of listening to a sequence of spoken digits that they then type into a form field to verify to the web application that there is indeed a live human at the other end.
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Where Your Taxes Go
November 28, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Eye-opening article on where the tax dollar goes on average.
Each working man or woman is on average forced to pay $3,690 to Social Security and Disability payments. This money is lost to them. There is no bank account or trust fund that holds this money or invests it for anyone’s retirement. The current retirees get all the money and always have. It goes out as fast as it comes in.
And why should these retirees get this money? By what right? They should have provided for their own retirement, not forced it out of each other and their sons and daughters collectively. Moral obligations to parents, the needy, the unfortunate, and the elderly should be met with compassion by each of us. They should not be enforced by the state’s sword.
I have always been a fan of doing away with social security as it is complete nonsense to anyone under the age of 40.
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Categories: Life
