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Article #1182Re: Need Random pw Generator: Words and Numbers
From: donoli
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 00:00
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doug@cnd.dundas.on.can wrote in message <7c1J3.1260$O51.54674@monger.newsread.com>... >In article <MPG.125d07c044d504919896d3@NNTP.ix.netcom.com>, >GLENN CATLIN <gcatlin@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >>I need a random password generator that will generate only passwords that >>are >words< with numbers (alpha-numeric). I realize that many folks feel >>a pw should have a jumble of numbers, but I just don't want to confuse >>our users. I have found many pw-generator apps but they have been just a >>collection of letters, not words, and numbers. Any suggestions? > >You don't specify what platform you want to run this on, but... >use expect, see http://expect.nist.gov. You'll find there >example/mkpasswd which does just what you want. > http://www.infokeep.net/pc/ donoli.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ff723,c02685873916d096 X-Google-Attributes: gidff723,public X-Google-Thread: f4e95,c02685873916d096 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4e95,public X-Google-Thread: 107bbd,c02685873916d096 X-Google-Attributes: gid107bbd,public X-Google-Thread: f5529,c02685873916d096 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5529,public From: "donoli" <donoli@netmonger.net> Subject: Re: Need Random pw Generator: Words and Numbers Date: 1999/10/02 Message-ID: <7t4868$in4$1@schenectady.netmonger.net> X-Deja-AN: 531823027 References: <MPG.125d07c044d504919896d3@NNTP.ix.netcom.com> <7c1J3.1260$O51.54674@monger.newsread.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@netmonger.net X-Trace: schenectady.netmonger.net 938845192 19172 167.206.210.36 (2 Oct 1999 06:19:52 GMT) Organization: NetMonger Communications, Long Island, NY NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Oct 1999 06:19:52 GMT Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,fj.comp.security,microsoft.public.access.security,netscape.public.mozilla.security