Re: Need Random pw Generator: Words and Numbers

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From: doug
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00

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In article <MPG.125d07c044d504919896d3@NNTP.ix.netcom.com>,
GLENN CATLIN <gcatlin@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>I need a random password generator that will generate only passwords that 
>are >words< with numbers (alpha-numeric).  I realize that many folks feel 
>a pw should have a jumble of numbers, but I just don't want to confuse 
>our users.  I have found many pw-generator apps but they have been just a 
>collection of letters, not words, and numbers.  Any suggestions?  

You don't specify what platform you want to run this on, but...
use expect, see http://expect.nist.gov. You'll find there
example/mkpasswd which does just what you want.

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