From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 0:29:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D97A337B55A for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 00:29:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@draenor.org) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12u982-000Ngz-00; Tue, 23 May 2000 09:29:26 +0200 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:29:26 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: Micke Josefsson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I generate passwords? Message-ID: <20000523092926.R61764@draenor.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mj@isy.liu.se on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:12:19AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's a nifty little program called pwdgen. Simply download it by using: fetch ftp://ftp.komputom.com.pl/pub/Linux/secure/pwdgen-0.01.tar.gz Then, just compile the small .c program and you have a password generator. Perhaps someone could add it to the ports tree?? :) Cheers, Marc On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:12:19AM +0200, Micke Josefsson wrote: > Each beginning of a semester I create some 50 accounts on my server. > Till now I have used a default password for every account, but I > intend to give every student a unique password from now on. Question > is: Are there any programs that help in producing passwords of any > quality? > > I imagine I could chop up, say, md5-checksums into ascii chars and > remove the ones that don't fit this purpose etc. But if there already > exists a program to do this job I'd rather use it. > > /Micke > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se > > This message was sent by XFMail > running on FreeBSD 3.4 > ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message