From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 19:37:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA12604 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12598 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 19:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id UAA06301; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:37:13 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199702200337.UAA06301@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: pronouncable password generator To: jaitken@cslab.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:37:12 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9702191921.AA11901@husky.cslab.vt.edu> from "Jeff Aitken" at Feb 19, 97 02:21:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I vaugely recall someone posting the source code to a very simple > pronouncable password generator some time ago, but I can't seem to find > any reference to it any more (the only thing I found on www.freebsd.org > was a reference to npasswd, which AFAIK doesn't do this). The last time I was forced to use one of these was on VMS. One day my friend Mike Sonshine was forced to change his password on login, and the machine came up with 'SEXAJU'. Being of Hebrew ethnicity, he was so pleased with this password that he showed it to everyone in our department. Kind of defeats the purpose, huh? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com