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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:01:43 -0500
From:      "Oleg Ogurok" <oleg@ogurok.com>
To:        "Andrzej Bialecki" <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        <ee123@rocketmail.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Password generator
Message-ID:  <011601be14b8$385cdae0$09e3fecc@homepc>

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>On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Oleg Ogurok wrote:
>
>> >  Hy,
>> >I'm looking for a password generator.
>> >Does anybody know where I can found one?
>> >
>> Well, you can look into a source code of DES, Kerberos, etc.
>> Also, download Apache sources and look into "htpasswd" source.
>
>Hmmm.. I think he asked about something as routines present e.g. in SCO,
>and used in their standard passwd(1) program - they are able to generate
>passwords which are pronouncable (they even give example pronounciation),
>but don't form any sensible word.
>


If he just need to generate random passwords, then it's really piece of cake
to write that kind of program in perl or C.

-Oleg.


>Well, for now we don't have anything like this.
>
>Andrzej Bialecki
>


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